Posted on 08/23/2014 5:53:35 PM PDT by McGruff
The Navy is sending a second aircraft carrier strike group to the Asia Pacific region amid new tensions with China over a dangerous aerial encounter between a Chinese interceptor and Navy P-8 surveillance craft.
The strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson departed San Diego for the Pacific on Friday, the Navy said in an announcement of what it terms a “planned” deployment.
China’s military on Saturday, meanwhile, demanded an end to all U.S. monitoring flights and called U.S. criticism of dangerous Chinese jet maneuvers false.
Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said in a statement that a Chinese fighter jet made a “regular identification and verification” of the Navy P-8 anti-submarine warfare jet during an encounter in an area 135 miles east of Hainan Island.
Yang called Pentagon criticism of the incident “totally groundless” and insisted the Chinese pilot operated professionally and kept a safe distance.
I thought we WERE paying the price, by using devalued dollars to buy low-quality merchandise that would have sat unsold on shelves just a few years ago.
Don’t worry about buying goods made domestically; they often can’t be found, and the means of producing them are gone.
You probably can’t even find many products manufactured here anymore (unless they are labeled as special and cost 50x as much).
What’s a carrier’s travel time from San Diego to, say, Yokosuka ?
Protip: Don't land on Hainan Island, if your P-3 is damaged.
In China, if you accumulate too much money, they take you down a notch...
As China strengthens as a military and economic power, it is no longer hiding its abhorrence of American military and political involvement in Asian affairs. China views itself as the predominant power in Asia and the arbiter and maker of policy. It views American involvement as just a lingering example of the humiliating foreign interference and domination of Asia. Jappenese intellectuals prior to WW II thought it was Japan’s duty to rid Asia of the shameful foreign domination. The French ruled Indochina, Britain had India, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore, The Dutch were in Indonesia and of course the Americans not only occupied the Philippines but organized embargoes and immigration restrictions. Japan of course was imperialist and nationalistic but that revulsion of foreign interference in Asian affairs has never died. China now sees itself as the power that insures that Asians and not foreigners dictate Asia’s destiny. Americans need to understand this dynamic and how it effects world affairs. For instance China views Iran as a regional energy supplier and its seventy million citizens as cash paying customers for its export oriented economy. It has absolutely no fear of a nuclear Iran and bitterly resents American efforts to block trade and sanctions. It without reservations sells Iran advanced armaments. Some of those arms are sophisticated missiles that pose a serious danger to the US Navy’s big blue water ships operating in the narrow, shallow waters of the Persian Gulf. China wants the US to withdraw its influence back across the Pacific much closer to its own shores. If the US suffered a debacle worse than Pearl Harbor in the Persian Gulf, China would not go into mourning.
Will this wallpaper look good in stripes, a chanel or maybe a floral pattern....
At this point China has far too much leverage. They can put a lot of pressure on US allies like Japan. They can threaten the Philippines. They can embargo rare earth shipments. They can confiscate (nationalize) US investments, think GM, Caterpillar, Apple, and thousands of other companies who have foolishly invested billions in a communist thugocracy.
America cannot afford a war with China right now, a shooting war, a trade war, a financial war, no war. America, and the rest of the free world, has to start disengaging from China. Especially in the area of strategic materials like rare earths, computer and communication equipment, and food.
Don’t use profanity, and you can enjoy the benefit of being unmoderated as well.
Rog. it was a tossup. plastic doggie... ahem... doo-doo or that fake rubber vomit... either of which you would once find in a comic book ad.
>>I hope Obama doesn’t turn this meaningful message into just a routine American gesture, with no real intent behind it.<<
Maybe he can put China on double secret probation if the second carrier doesn’t work.
The minute China thinks they can take on the west... they will. We would all be fools to think otherwise.
Let’s just pretend that won’t happen though and keep buying their crap.
Excuse me while I go vomit in the corner.
Anyone with a few functioning brain cells has warned of China for the last two decades. Certainly hasn’t helped, as they were ignored completely.
They created this mess, and just as I predicted in the mid 90s, our kids and grand-kids will die because of our idiotic financing and provision of technology to facilitate China’s emergence.
I honestly think charges of treason should be leveled across the board to government officials and corporate decision makers who fed this idiocy.
We almost had another Wong Wei incident out there, remember the last P-8 they knocked down?
Looks sortof like a Chinese thumb handcuff.
lol
I got my P-8 and P-3 confused
multi-purpose device!
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