Another U.S./China Naval Collision
So the U.S. destroyer John S. McCain is the latest ship to run into trouble with the Chinese navy in the South China Sea. In this case, a Chinese submarine, which was undoubtedly tracking the vessel, ran afoul of a sonar tracking device being towed by the ship. The incident took place outside of Subic Bay in the Philippines, where even the most extreme Chinese territorial claims don't reach, I don't think. Still, it's instructive that from a senior Chinese officer's point of view, the incidents won't stop until the U.S. leaves the area completey. Here's the money quote from the story in the China Daily:
Major General Luo Yuan, a senior researcher with the Academy of Military Sciences in Beijing, said though the collision was accidental, the existence of US ships in the South China Sea is cause for potential incidents.
"The best way to avoid such collisions is for the Pentagon to stop its unfriendly moves toward China in this region," he said.
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Sergent,
dose this incident take place in waters where even the most extreme American territorial claims reach? I don't think.
If the US navy can go there, why not Chinese navy? the answers is obvious, Americans are superior and the world police, so they can. China ia an evil enemy state, so she cannot.
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Teachers' Union in the Philippines has issued a press release condemning the US and China for incursion into sovereign Philippine territorial waters, and the Arroyo government for downplaying the incident:
http://cebuteachersbulliten.blogspot.com/2009/06/teachers-demand-investigation-of.html -
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If this happened in Mexican Gulf, what will you say?
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This may not be in Chinese territorial waters, but it is certainly in Philippines. May be the Chinese submarine was there with Philippines permission while the US destroyer was not. But, anyway, China can declare that to be part of Chinese economic exclusion zone retroactively, and complain about US intrusion into its EEZ, and justifies the presence of the Chinese sub.
Americans are liars, anyway. They even have a contest for it: http://tinyurl.com/ll58ha
They are excluding professionals like lawyers, politicians, patent medicine salesmen or motivational speakers. Why not journalists ? Will they accept people of Chinese descend ?
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