Report: Chinese destroyer forced 28-hour standoff with Kitty Hawk battle group

Ryan,

Ah! That explains it! Thank you! : )

The best one comes at the end:

Last November's incident, however, could have been unintentional as the Shenzhen was also headed to Tokyo for an historic port call there, just as the Kitty Hawk was denied Hong Kong entry.

The confrontation ended without incident as all vessels continued on course toward Japan by Nov. 24.

So, what is this? The US gets jittery and battleready when a Chinese vessel comes anywhere near its own ships? On China's very front porch? Does the US expect everyone to run and flee as soon as they decide to sail down their sealine?

Are international waters US territory all of a sudden?

Just the same story as with the Irani boats. We are America, we rule, unless you sink to your knees, roll over and play dead, you are aggressive.

Get prepared for much more like this. It might turn into a favourite sports of non-allied Navies.

After too many years of lies. I wonder if this is just another story to scare the US in to another war?
This is the only course left to keep the Republicans in power.
Keep everyone scared of every evil in the world and we promise to keep you safe.
The only thing missing is honesty and the truth.

TSR,
"At least currently. ever.."
I'd have to disagree.
Look at what the US is trying to do around China. Getting Japan to re-militarize, keeping Taiwan supported, making a military alliance with India, and in general trying to buy the loyalty of as many countries surrounding China as possible. It's old school geo-politics, as China just has to not freak out that the U.S. is trying to surround them and they'll still eventually become a more powerful than the Americans economic wise.

Not mention one of the (I think) ulterior motives for Iraq. If you look at the oil shipping lines, and where most of China's oil comes from, controlling Iraq puts the Americans hands literally on the tap of a large bulk of China's oil, which is of course of insane strategic importance. The Americans definitly have China in mind as a future foe, even if its just because of the mindset of the current American leadership that for the U.S. to be safe and successful, they *have* to be number one.

Getting Japan to re-militarize, keeping Taiwan supported, making a military alliance with India, and in general trying to buy the loyalty of as many countries surrounding China as possible.

interesting analysis.. i don't buy it though.

we are trying to remilitarize japan so our defense guys can sell a big pile of stuff to them.. people paid big money to get the neocons into office, and they want a return on their investment.

there is not a measure of time short enough to describe how fast we will leave taiwan high and dry should that conflict go hot. it probably won't though as the people have voted out the party that always wants a fight with china in the last week or so.

i'm not so sure about india.. the only people they have the potential to go to war with is pakistan. the way things are going that would be pretty ugly.. don't know how that really effects us but i'd guess the same reasons as japan above.

now for one moment think about what country has the largest border with china and think then for a moment about the possibilities of buying them off..

now i do think you might be right about oil, but if it comes down to fighting for it, we'll lose our asses right up until the moment that nukes start flying, and at that point, we won't need it anyway.

we have really cool military hardware and a 1.2 million brave souls to run it. the chinese have not as good hardware, but what they lose in quality, they make up for bigtime in quantity with nearly double the troops and triple the fighter aircraft. they don't have a big nuke arsenal, but it's big enough..

even w in all his moronic glory knows better...