US: China rejects Hong Kong port call by US aircraft carrier
美国:中国拒绝美国航母停靠香港港口
Associated Press
FILE - In this photo Dec. 1, 2014 file photo, the aircraft carrier USS
John Stennis seen near Bremerton, Wash. China recently denied a request
from the U.S. aircraft carrier Stennis for a port visit in Hong Kong,
the State Department said Friday, April 29, 2016, in an apparent sign of
mounting tension in the disputed South China Sea. (Larry
Steagall/Kitsap Sun via AP)[CN]
WASHINGTON
(AP) — China recently denied a request from a U.S. aircraft carrier for
a port visit in Hong Kong, the State Department said Friday, in an
apparent sign of mounting tension in the disputed South China Sea.[CN]
Defense
Secretary Ash Carter and his Philippine counterpart visited the
carrier, USS John C. Stennis, in those waters two weeks ago, a move that
irked Beijing.[CN]
两周前在这个海域,国防部长Ash Carter和他的菲律宾同僚参观了John C. Stennis航母,这个行动激恼了中国。
Gabrielle
Price, spokeswoman for East Asia, said the department was recently
informed that a request for a visit by the Stennis and accompanying
vessels was denied. She said the U.S. has a long record of successful
port visits to Hong Kong, including a current visit by the USS Blue
Ridge, and it expects that will continue.[CN]
She referred further inquiries to the Chinese government.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The
Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post quoted China's Foreign
Ministry as saying that port calls by U.S. warships were examined on a
"case by case basis."
don't worry the Chinese they are not afraid the Zion military even the Chinese had absolute out date army in 1950 the Chinese manage to killed the Zion military and it 26 lapdog on November 26 1950 massive dead and you can count on the Chinese to deal with the Zion and Anglo Saxon the world are waiting to see the Zion military fight the real army not bunch camel mountain man.[CN]
what like Diego Garcia where the indigenous people were turfed off their island by America and went on to build a airbase on the island by dredging up the sand ... people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones[CN]
Just divert to nearby Kaohsiung, Taiwan for a Port of Call - one of our most sincere, welcoming yet neglected allies in Asia. See how the thugs in Beijing like that.[CN]
Since Taiwan is a part of China (even if they don't think so) that would be a stupid move on our part. Right now there is an uneasy truce between the leaders of Taiwan and China. With the tensions already much higher than they should be doing so could push things even higher. After all it's hard to say that Taiwan should be able to set it's own course when we are saying that Crimea shouldn't be allowed to set it's own course.[CN]
Americans have a cheek to call anyone thugs ... your country is the biggest bully on the planet and i hope the Chinese take you clowns down a peg or two[CN]
The Chinese are hoping Hillary gets elected they already know how much a Clinton costs to sell out a country. TRUMP on the other hand scares the hell out of them.[CN]
It is China who takes all our money why not tell The President to go to hell what do they lose. It is sad to see what Obama has done to the military who in China saved them from the Japs in WW-11[CN]
This time, send no less than five (5) ships into that area, command them to avoid chino's ship; that if they need help, more ships will be arriving soon. Now, if chino fires the first shot, make that their last shot. Drop them to the bottom of the Great Asian Sea. Tell chino, those commie basterios that we do not respect them. Win this effort to bullying, make it the USA.[CN]
Because the Clinton's have long paid contributors to their funds accounts by the chinese. Bill let that spy go several years back in San Fran with just a pat on the back. Chinese money is deep in many political pockets, why they wont fix the trade with them.[CN]
Remember when Obama was going to restore our stature, how he was going to make America loved again, and build wonderful relationships. I would hate to see the state of our relationships if this had not been a priority, sheeze.[CN]
Obama was seen crying and apologizing to the communists, saying he will destroy the U.S. navy before leaving office to make sure China rules the world.[CN]
And yet as long as the US gov't get it's cut of money, they will allow US companies to use the cheap labor their to line their pockets while americans continue to lose jobs to the same countries the gov't calls evil. How 2 faced is that.[CN]
Pretty soon China is not going to accept the almighty dollar, which is nothing more than worthless debt notes anyway and they'll want to be paid in gold or suitable currency that isn't based in fantasy land. That time is coming fast and the US is fast isolating itself. If the NWO boys and girls don't get the war they want.... they're f****d.[CN]
max, #$%$ are you talking about, vito didn't even mention Iran? Darkstar, pretty soon the Chinese economy will crash to the point that it doesn't matter. Have look at the Chinese loses in dollars lately, this due to Tariffs on foreign companies and taxes on foreign investors. Hundreds of companies are bailing out of China as soon as their contracts are up and people aren't investing anymore. The made in China era is quickly coming to an end. Why do you think the American business council is bringing U.S. manufacturing back to U.S. shores, it's almost as cheap to produce in the U.S. as it is in China and cheaper to produce it in countries like Vietnam,Taiwan, Philippines etc...[CN]
They know Obama is a self deluding idiot who thinks he is the greatest gift to mankind ever. Obama believes that all he has to do is show up with his media manufactured halo and lecture them and all will be caught up in his magical spell and fall in line. He is even now just today saying that his administration did a fantastic job that no one else could have done in reviving our economy. Yet the numbers don't show it. They cook the numbers, example:unemployment. Everyone knows that that is a phony number. Everyone knows it. We have lowered the bar when we think creating a couple of hundred thousand jobs for a couple of months in a row is proof of a recovery. We are almost 19 trillion in debt, 9 trillion added by this administration. More than any in history. Compared to Bush who added 4.9 tr. Obama has done far better at adding debt. Most legit economists say we need a minimum of 300,000 new jobs every month, just to keep up and create growth. This last quarter the economy grew at less than 1%...which is pitiful and shows that his bragging is BS. We need to be at 4, 5 or 6% growth like the good old days. Instead this president wants us to accept these weak numbers as his success. This president has been on the wrong side of everything since the get go. He is a community disorganizer turned country destroyer and he is not only an enemy of our country but an enemy to the western world at large. He and Clinton are very dangerous and delusional and both are borderline insane.
@Steve, you're hilarious. Russia & China are hoping to see Trump get elected so they can test him. They have a bet about who can get him to either cry or #$%$ his pants. BTW Steve, You won't be able to run to Canada or Mexico so if Trump wins, run to your nearest Military base and grow a pair fast. LOL
What's going on is Russia and China are slowly being pushed to team up. Between Russia's natural resources and high tech military weaponry and China's bankroll and large population. Anyone who thinks we can easily beat them if they team up is just fooling themselves. In fact I'm not sure just which countries will really take our side. Most of the EU most likely will sit it out knowing that Russia could drop nukes on any of them in minutes. But that's the problem with being #1, staying there is never easy or cheap. China has over a billion dollars of our debt (that they could dump and flush the dollar down the drain) as proof of this.
Eff China and their buddy North Korea. We never should have started doing business with communist China. They aren't worth the money. It just goes to show you that money trumps anything and greed allows people and countries to look the other way while the bad guys keep on doing bad things. Money is truly the root of all evil. AMERICA FIRST!!! Never Hillary!! Peace through strength and we should be the baddest mf's on the block. Unfortunately it is up to the western nations to be strong and defend freedom and human rights for everyone for that is the only way there will ever be any hope for a peaceful world. Without a strong America and our strong allies the world would become a one world authoritarian government. We don't want your land or your treasure. We have land and we can generate treasureon our own. All we would like to do is make the conditions possible for everyone to prosper. Most countries have natural resources that are sucked up by the dictators and governments to build their military while the people do without and they suffer because of it and their leaders just don't care. Every person in every country should share in the wealth and opportunities those resources offer. There are "some" places that have nothing and all of us could pitch in and help those countries. But those countries are few and far between.The leftist have these kind of pie in the sky utopian fantasies but they want the power and control. That is what is wrong with their vision. The power and control should always rest in the hands of the people. We should not reward evil leaders. We can have diplomatic relations and try to have a peaceful back and forth but if we get nothing in return, (and it doesn't have to directly benefit us but it must benefit the people of that country) then we keep up the pressure and use our economic power as well as the threat of our military power until we break these tyrants and give the country back to it's people. Instead Obama treats Iran and Cuba like they are worthy of our friendship and economic partnership while getting nothing in return. That benefits the authoritarian rulers and no one else. Stupid Stupid Stupid. Now China thinks that they can challenge us and are making land grabs while our leader is weak and feckless. No one respects Obama. He is a laughingstock. We have got to get our mojo back before the whole mworld erupts into chaos...and thanks to Obama that is closer than it has been in decades. Time to say bye bye progressive trash. We need a non pc leader who is strong and willing to walk away from bad deals. TRUMP 2016.
The Chinese were civilized when your forefathers were still living in caves, painting themselves green and eating raw meet. China has 1.4 billion people. Do you thing the 320 million in the US are enough to buy all the peoducts and services from America? Do some reasearch or reading!!
@Lgieh...I know who was president and opened up the Chinese market. They were even harder core communists then and I did not approve or like it at all. Believe it or not I do not love republicans but I absolutely DESPISE progressives and their smear tactics and lying and attacking anyone who disagrees with them to the point of trying to destroy that person or persons. It is not republicans or conservatives who are trying to silence free speech. Republicans are not protesting every conservative speaker that shows up on college campuses or the front runners rallies causing trouble. Conservatives don't do that. It is not republicans who pretend to be "Offended" by anything they don't like. It was Harry Reid who stood on the Senate floor and said he had a friend who told him Romney hadn't paid his taxes for at least the last ten years, yet he offered up no name of that friend nor did he present any proof. Just a flat out smear. Progressives are mean spirited, uncooperative lying sacks of power hungry manure with lousy policies both domestic and foreign. PC has ruined this country. When it gets to the point where someone sees "Build a Wall" in chalk on a sidewalk and because they see that then proceeds to have a nervous breakdown and then demands a safe space to cry in.......those are the pansies that will be the future of this country and because they are such weak pajama boy cocoa drinking gutless weaklings....well ...you better start learning to speak Chinese. Only strong men with rifles can defend and save this country from total destruction or takeover. That is the way the world has always been and the way it will always be. Only the strong survive...and these liberal college pansies just don't cut it. They will be wearing skirts, panties and bras serving their Muslim or Chinese masters as shemales.
@Angel Eyes...Oh where do I begin with you? My point is and let me say this real slow so you get it.......Money is not everything. Get it? Maybe you should read a book and do some research. Do you know who runs the Cuban economy? Do you? Let me tell you, stupid. The military in Cuba runs the economy. The people of Cuba cannot possess American dollars. They are paid in pesos. Only the Cuban government and military can have American dollars,,, so Obama the destroyer running down to Cuba and declaring that we will now give them the benefit of our tourism and business only enriches the military who will now have more money to oppress, jail, torture and murder the good people of Cuba who have done nothing but critiicize the Castros.
Second....the products and services you talk about selling China.......Both China and Mexico have taken our manufacturing jobs so very little is actually made here anymore. If you are as smart as you think you are you would know that. America is now a service based economy. We buy far more from China than they do from us. Same thing with Mexico. Same thing with Japan. We have massive multi billion dollar trade deficits with these countries. They have become the producers who sell to us. Get it? When we started to lose our manufacturing base, over time that has destroyed our economy. If you are a maker ...you make it, sell it and make money and jobs are plentiful. When you are reduced to buying everything from other countries you have more money going out than coming in and the jobs disappear. Only so many people can sell insurance and food and carpet cleaning and such. And those people are only selling to people who live in this country. Those are not things you can market for global sales. A service based economy is a weak economy. We need those service jobs but we also need the manufacturing. That is why we geared up for World War 2 so fast and well. The US was nothing then. We were not a major power and we had a very small underfunded military. It was our manufacturing base that allowed us to tool up for making planes, tanks, weapons, ammunition and such on a very fast timetable. And it was mostly WOMEN working in those factories because the men were fighting the war. It was an amazing accomplishment and without that manufacturing base it never would have happened. After the war we were a world power and manufacturing made that possible.
So my point is........it is immoral to do business with countries that are authoritarian and do not allow free speech or criticism of the government or it's leaders and who torture, murder and imprison those who dare to do so. Most people have a very good sense of what is right and wrong. It's not that hard.How much money do you think the Chinese manufacturers pay their employees? They make NOTHING and a lot of their manufacturing is not only government owned but uses unpaid slave/prison labor. If we have the values we love to brag about...we would not do business with these people. We are funding our own destruction by doing so. Where do you think the Chinese get the money that is now being used to build up and modernize their military? They steal our secrets after we pay for the research and development and then all they have to do is take the money we pay them for their lousy products and build the same planes ships and weapons we have at a much reduced costs because a lot of the cost is the research and development process. They are not our friends. They are our enemies. They send us poisoned dog treats and pet food. They sell us sheet rock which gives off suphuric fumes and people have to leave their brand new homes because the only thing you can do is strip it out and start over. Most can not afford to do it twice but they still have to make their mortgage paymeents or their credit and their lives are ruined. So You go and read some books because I'm up on it.
@lgieh...and I will NEVER be forced to buy an Obamacare Insurance policy and I will NEVER pay a fine for not doing so. I wipe my crack with Obamacare papers and the Koran. Come and get me if you think you can. Not saying it couldn't be done because I'm just one person...but those who do come better have their insurance all paid up, they better say that last possible goodbye to friends and family, and they better have made peace with their maker. The federal government was created to take care of the business of the USA, to field a strong military to defend the country, and collect the fair taxes to support those endeavors. everything else was left up to the individual states. That way if you don't like the state laws or regulations of the state you live in..you could move to another state who doesn't have those laws or regs. That is what you call real freedom. Nothing else is.
Nothing that canceling our free trade agreement with the Chinese wouldn't cure and it would have the additional benefit of bringing millions of our manufacturing jobs back to America.
Keep on dreaming. If what you're saying were possible, it would have been done already. Losing the Chinese connection would wreak havoc in the US economy.
Well, everything will cost more & the poor will suffer. Manufacturing jobs will come back and this will take time. How about cancel free trade from China & subsidize the poor due to price increase.
China has no respect for a weak leader like Obama and would have a field day with Crooked Hillary. Crooked Hillary is just looking for a legacy and a library in her name. As for leadership skills... I think we found that out with Libya and Iran and her devotion too Obama. 4 more years of her would be like 4 more years of Obama and maybe worse!