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'Leave immediately': US Navy plane warned over South China Sea
CNN ^ | August 10, 2018 | Brad Lendon, Ivan Watson and Ben Westcott

Posted on 08/10/2018 7:48:20 AM PDT by C19fan

igh above one of the most hotly contested regions in the world, CNN was given a rare look Friday at the Chinese government's rapidly expanding militarization of the South China Sea

Aboard a US Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance plane, CNN got a view from 16,500 feet of low-lying coral reefs turned into garrisons with five-story buildings, large radar installations, power plants and runways sturdy enough to carry large military aircraft. During the flight the crew received six separate warnings from the Chinese military, telling them they were inside Chinese territory and urging them to leave. "Leave immediately and keep out to avoid any misunderstanding," a voice said.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bandits; china; pirates; prc; redchina; southchinasea; thieves; trumpasia; usnavy
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To: Truth29
Our response should be Trumpian.

You mean like:
"We will fire the fastest most excellent missiles at you that the world has ever seen. You won't believe how fast they are. And they are yuge."

21 posted on 08/10/2018 9:26:15 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: 1Old Pro

LOL, good one.


22 posted on 08/10/2018 9:26:35 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Mr. K

How do they reply to these messages?

Hi. Yes. I’d like an order of pork-fried rice. Some egg rolls. An order of General Tso’s chicken and some scallion pancakes. No MSG, please.


23 posted on 08/10/2018 9:33:29 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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To: Junk Silver

Russian submarine activity highest since the Cold War - US Navy admiral just yesterday

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/08/08/russian-submarine-threat-largest-since-cold-war-top-us-navy-admiral.html


24 posted on 08/10/2018 9:44:19 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: C19fan

This simply gives President Trump more justification to impose tariffs on China and impose other measures on them.

The very moment they fire on one of our airplanes or ships (it’s coming) then I hope President Trump imposes an immediate and complete trade embargo on the bandit regime that runs China.


25 posted on 08/10/2018 10:22:16 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

>>You mean like:
>>”We will fire the fastest most excellent missiles at you that the world has ever seen. You won’t believe how fast they are. And they are yuge.”

Yes. Outside of the Anglo-Saxon world, hyperbole works better than matter-of-fact. They assume that your understated facts are really hyperbole and that leaves them less than impressed.


26 posted on 08/10/2018 10:30:50 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: Fred Hayek

“Is there a replacement?”

Even the satellite tech we had contemporaneous with the Blackbird’s last decade was a very decent stand-in. What we have in orbit these days, I don’t precisely know, but sensor and imaging tech have come a long ways further.

Wouldn’t surprise me if they can point Hubble wherever they want, as well.


27 posted on 08/10/2018 10:39:34 AM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: C19fan

WHY is the Navy flying CNN around?


28 posted on 08/10/2018 11:00:56 AM PDT by easternsky
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To: C19fan
China uses these artificial islands as forward operations much like our carrier groups.

Definitely a concern. One day, they'll make the mistake of firing on one of our aircraft and or ships.

That’ll be the end of their fake islands for sure, but will lead to a pretty ugly conflict with our trading frie....wait!

Tell me again why our government has allowed so much of our industry to be controlled by communist?

29 posted on 08/10/2018 11:11:15 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: C19fan

Pretty easy to take out each island with conventional weapons, administered through the auspices of the Phillipines, and even Vietnam— who really can’t stand the chi-coms. The Russians lined up on their border with North Korea, when the Chinese did the same on their borders. Russians don’t like these bases any more than we do. Might need to go way past old style detente.

Get the Japanese involved. After all, the chi-coms are merely replicating the old Empire’s Greater East Asian Cooperative Region (the original Japanese imperial expansion in the S. Pacific and over into the Indian Ocean). This is a big deal these chinee bases. And Diane Feinstein has some major splaining to do along with the clintoonians. She is some piece of work.


30 posted on 08/10/2018 11:25:36 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Junk Silver

Our NeoCons’ forcing Russia into China’s arms is the biggest strategic blunder in recent history.


31 posted on 08/10/2018 11:34:04 AM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: C19fan

I wonder if Elon’s Boring company could build an underwater boring machine that undermines these islands.


32 posted on 08/10/2018 11:54:33 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: HKMk23
The downside with satellites is that they are so predictable. Orbital mechanics. When you know that a satellite is going to make a pass, you can hide stuff. Hangars, tarps, get it out of sight. Yes, that is done by us, and others. Not that easy with a Blackbird, especially even that old bird had a small RCS. And the Blackbird has made a number of overflights over heavily defended areas like .
33 posted on 08/10/2018 12:27:10 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: HKMk23

BTW there is little difference between the Hubble and the KH-13.


34 posted on 08/10/2018 12:29:37 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: C19fan
China has spent much of the past two years fortifying these islands, including placing missiles on the Spratly island chain during naval exercises in April. This is despite a promise made by President Xi Jinping to then-US President Barack Obama in 2015 that the Chinese government would not be militarizing the artificial islands.

But they promised!!!

35 posted on 08/10/2018 1:17:02 PM PDT by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: daler
"branding"

As in Cattle type or ™️ Branding ?

36 posted on 08/10/2018 1:40:02 PM PDT by mabarker1 (congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: servantboy777

Yes why has our government allowed so much of our industry to be controlled by China?

Could it be because so much of our government is controlled by globalists that do not put USA 1st. We and they took Chinese out of bicycles and made them rich and powerful. Louis Dobbs etc were saying it forever.


37 posted on 08/10/2018 1:41:53 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Political correctness should be defined as news media that exposes political corruption)
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To: Fred Hayek

It’s entirely possible that the black birds had additional functionality which was not widely known even after their retirement.


38 posted on 08/10/2018 1:42:44 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (Imho)
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To: easternsky; Chode
Because they don’t drink

So they don’t have any Wings !

39 posted on 08/10/2018 1:50:44 PM PDT by mabarker1 (congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: Fred Hayek

There is that little Boeing X thing that the Airforce would launch every now and then to orbit for months on end.


40 posted on 08/10/2018 1:58:27 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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