Just two weeks after Russian fighter jets showed their disdain for open sea lanes and operational safety by flying within 30 feet of a U.S. Navy destroyer, China has sent a comparable message. The Chinese rejected a routine request by the Americans for a Hong Kong port visit by the carrier battle group John Stennis. The aircraft carrier and its support ships are just completing a patrol of the South China Sea, where the Chinese are building artificial islands in a heavily criticized territory grab.
The Chinese rebuke to the Americans is disturbing on several levels. The most basic is that China’s claims in the South China Sea seem headed for a pointed confrontation that may indeed become explosive. That is the assessment of one of the most knowledgeable commentators on the region, retired Navy Captain Jerry Hendrix, who is a senior fellow and the director of the Defense Strategies and Assessments Program at the Center for a New American Security. READ MORE
It’s about time the US administration ‘kept it nose” out of other countries affairs. The whole word is in a mess due to its on going ‘war mongering’ and ‘regime change’ strategies which have always been geopolitically greed based. Just look at the LIES from the White House to create the Iraq War!!. This is the route cause of the current Middle East crisis and passive invasion of MILLIONS of Muslims moving into Europe!. A total US administration disaster!. President Bush is a ‘war criminal’ if ever there was one. China, indeed, has EVERY right to be concerned with the USA’s history of global interference, trouble making and on going war mongering. Take a breath US administration and look after your own domestic population.