From Japan Today: The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet rejected Thursday a news report that the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk was confronted by a Chinese destroyer and a submarine after the carrier was denied a port call in Hong Kong last November. “When we saw that report, I was surprised,” Adm Timothy Keating […]
From The Daily Yomiuri: A Chinese submarine tracked a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier for 28 hours in the Taiwan Strait in November, while the U.S. carrier launched an aircraft in response to prepare for any contingency, according to the Tuesday edition of Taiwan’s China Times newspaper. According to the report, the Chinese Song-class submarine was […]
In a visit that seems destined to get lost in the media shadow cast by the presence in Beijing of India’s prime minister, US military officials are set to fly to China to deal with a souring of the cross-Pacific military...
From The Power and Interest News Report (PINR): Diplomatic friction between the United States and the People’s Republic of China has grown more palpable during the past week. A series of high profile events involving the port of Hong Kong have unfolded on the international stage, leaving observers, political analysts and military planners contemplating the […]
From AP: The diplomatic friction over China’s refusal to allow U.S. Navy warships to enter Hong Kong harbor is the kind of incident that a crisis hot line ordered three months ago by President Bush and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao might have averted. The trouble is, the hot line is not installed yet. “There […]
From International Herald Tribune: China blocked the visit of a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group and other American warships to Hong Kong last week in retaliation for the Bush administration’s proposed upgrading of Taiwan’s Patriot antimissile batteries, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Thursday. Beijing also denied that Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi had told President George […]
From Reuters, via MSN News UK: Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told President George W. Bush on Wednesday that Beijing’s refusal to let a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier into Hong Kong was a “misunderstanding,” the White House said. The Defence Department said it had issued a formal complaint to China and that Beijing still had […]
From Hong Kong’s Ming Pao: According to sources in China, in recent days the East and South China Sea fleets of the People’s Liberation Army [PLA] have carried out a large-scale “campaign-level [zhanyi ji] naval exercise”; the two big fleets staged a joint combat exercise in the Pacific east of Taiwan; the recent aviation controls […]
From The Washington Post: China’s refusal to allow a U.S. aircraft carrier to dock in Hong Kong on Thanksgiving — a port call planned months in advance — was probably a response to President Bush’s appearance with the Dalai Lama last month, a longtime specialist in U.S.-China relations said Friday.
“The aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk’s Thanksgiving visit to Hong Kong is scuttled, leaving sailors at sea and their visiting families on land. But Beijing’s point is unclear.” From the Los Angeles Times: China’s decision to block the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk from a long-planned Thanksgiving visit to Hong Kong, before relenting 24 hours […]
From BBC News: The US Navy says Chinese approval for its vessels to enter Hong Kong for the Thanksgiving holiday has come too late. The navy said the ships had already left the area, after China initially refused their request to dock.
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