"Sunday's incident near Hainan Island is reminiscent of a much more dramatic foreign policy crisis with China that played out in the same area: the forced landing of a US spy plane and China's seizure of the crew in April 2001 came just four months into President George W. Bush's tenure"
Someone trying to get the WWIII going?
This one of Biden's tests? And it also makes you wonder: first WTC attack in 1993, second in 2001, that's eight years. 2001 to 2009 is.... eight years.
"Navy asserts harassment by China ships; Mapping vessel in international waters, US says" by Pauline Jelinek and Anne Gearan, Associated Press | March 10, 2009
WASHINGTON - Chinese ships surrounded and harassed a US Navy mapping ship in international waters off China, at one point coming within 25 feet of the American boat and strewing debris in its path, the Defense Department said yesterday.
The Obama administration said it would continue naval operations in the South China Sea, most of which China considers its territory, and protested to China about what it called reckless behavior that endangered lives.
U.S. arrogance always bothers me. They rattle sabers or invade anybody lately?
At one point during the incident Sunday, the unarmed USNS Impeccable turned fire hoses on an approaching Chinese ship in self defense, the Pentagon said. At another point a Chinese ship played chicken with the Americans, stopping in front of the Impeccable as the naval ship tried to sail away, the Pentagon said.
If you think I'm believing the Pentagon's version of anything anymore, sorry, that creds gone.
"We view these as unprofessional maneuvers" and a violation of international law, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.
That charge is hilarious from the world's biggest violator of international law.
The incident had overtones of spycraft, but the US ship is not, strictly speaking, a spy ship. It maps the ocean floor with sonar, compiling information the Navy can use to steer its own submarines or track those of other nations.
Oh, it WAS a SPY MISSION AFTER ALL!! Yeah, THAT'S RIGHT!! The GLOBALISTS have the RIGHT to MAP OUT the WORLD on a SURVEILLANCE GRID and GOD HELP ANYONE WHO RESISTS!!!!! Look at the press treatment they get!
The Impeccable was specifically designed to augment the Navy's antisubmarine capability, although military spokesmen would not be specific about what the ship was doing when it was surrounded....
Well, IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE?!!!
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Whitman said the confrontation was the most aggressive of several incidents recently in the same area....
Really? Why didn't the papers cover it? One would start to think that EVERYTHING in the PAPER is MANUFACTURED and PLACED THERE for an AGENDA-PUSHING PURPOSE -- if one didn't know better about the AmeriKan MSM.
The incident occurred just a week after China and the US resumed military-to-military consultations following a five-month suspension over US arms sales to Taiwan. And it came as Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi was due in Washington to meet with US officials.
And CUI BONO, huh, war-makers?
"We're going to continue to operate in those international waters, and we expect the Chinese to observe international law around that," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.
What chutzpah!
A protest was lodged with the Chinese government by the US Embassy in Beijing over the weekend and was repeated to a Chinese defense attaché at a Pentagon meeting yesterday.
In Beijing, Chinese officials did not immediately respond to voicemail messages and e-mail regarding the US allegations. Pentagon officials said the incident followed "increasingly aggressive" acts by Chinese ships against the Impeccable on Wednesday and Saturday and against the USNS Victorious surveillance ship on Thursday while it operated in the Yellow Sea.
Oh, THEY were AGGRESSIVE against one of our SPY SHIPS, huh?
Imagine for a MOMENT, readers, if the CHINESE WERE MAPPING the U.S. COASTLINE.
The WAR-PROMOTING PROPAGANDA PAPERS would be HOWLING FOR WAR!!!!!!!!!!!
The Chinese ships included a Chinese Navy intelligence collection ship, a Bureau of Maritime Fisheries Patrol Vessel, a State Oceanographic Administration patrol vessel and two Chinese-flagged trawlers, officials said. China views almost the entirety of the South China Sea as its territory. China's claims to small islets in the region have put it at odds with five governments - the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan.
Pentagon officials said the close encounter followed these other incidents last week:
On Wednesday, a Chinese Bureau of Fisheries patrol vessel used a high-intensity spotlight to illuminate the Victorious, an ocean surveillance ship, as it operated in the Yellow Sea, about 125 nautical miles from China's coast, the Pentagon said. The next day, a Chinese Y-12 maritime surveillance aircraft conducted 12 fly-bys of Victorious at an altitude of about 400 feet and a range of 500 yards.On Thursday, a Chinese frigate approached the Impeccable without warning and crossed its bow at a range of approximately 100 yards, the Pentagon said. This was followed less than two hours later by a Chinese Y-12 aircraft conducting 11 fly-bys of Impeccable.
On Saturday, a Chinese intelligence collection ship challenged Impeccable over bridge-to-bridge radio, calling her operations illegal and directing Impeccable to leave the area or "suffer the consequences."
Why you been so quiet on it until now, MSM?
Sunday's incident near Hainan Island is reminiscent of a much more dramatic foreign policy crisis with China that played out in the same area: the forced landing of a US spy plane and China's seizure of the crew in April 2001 came just four months into President George W. Bush's tenure.
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And as if to keep the pressure on, this just happens to show up on the same day:
"China tightens security in Tibet; Dalai Lama says culture, identity near extinction" by Edward Wong, New York Times | March 10, 2009
BEIJING - Security forces have increased patrols in central Tibet and vigilance along international borders ahead of a sensitive anniversary to guard against possible disruption by followers of the Dalai Lama or Western groups advocating Tibetan independence, according to state news reports yesterday.
I know it is painful, readers; however, the guy is a CIA asset. That explains why the college loved the guy, and the overwhelmingly positive coverage that guy gets in the AmeriKan MSM! Heck, I loved him for th humor and nonviolence until.... Another of life's beliefs is shattered!
The reports were the most detailed acknowledgment by the government that it has clamped down on the region. To mark the 50th anniversary of a failed Tibetan rebellion against Chinese rule....
Yeah, that's the last time China "invaded" anybody, depending on how you view the territory.
Last March, the police clamped down on a protest by Buddhist monks in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, prompting many Tibetans to riot. The uprising quickly spread to other Tibetan areas of China, becoming the largest-scale Tibetan rebellion against Chinese rule in decades.
Yeah, the U.S. started stirring shit up!
The Chinese government fears the same thing could happen again this year, and it has been flooding Tibetan regions across western China with troops and police officers, creating an unofficial state of martial law. Foreigners have been barred from many areas.
Sort of like what the U.S. has?
In the uprising last year, at least 19 people were killed in Lhasa, most of them Han Chinese civilians, according to the Chinese government. In the ensuing crackdown, 220 Tibetans were killed, nearly 1,300 were injured and nearly 7,000 were detained or imprisoned, according to the Tibetan government in exile, which is based in Dharamsala, India. More than 1,000 Tibetans are still missing.
Early yesterday, a police car and a fire engine parked at a timber farm in a Tibetan area of Qinghai Province were attacked with homemade explosives, the official Xinhua news agency reported. No one was injured, the news agency reported.
Yup, OUR TIBETAN TERRORISTS at work, Amurka!!
HELLOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
The attack occurred after forest police officers stopped a local timber truck on Sunday at a checkpoint to inspect cargo and licenses, Xinhua said. That led to an argument between the people in the truck and the police, which then resulted in dozens of local residents protesting at the police station.
Simmering resentment at Chinese rule has manifested itself in various ways in recent weeks. In late February, many of China's 6 million Tibetans chose not to celebrate Losar, the Tibetan New Year, to mourn those who suffered during the unrest last year. Monks and nuns have held protests in Tibetan areas of Gansu and Sichuan provinces.
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Just wondering why the Globe axed this from its web version:
One monk in northern Sichuan set himself on fire in a marketplace.
Officials have been quick to blame such incidents on the "Dalai clique." A senior Tibetan official said on Sunday that the increased patrols in the Tibet Autonomous Region were temporary measures aimed at foiling separatist plots by the Dali Lama's followers.
Well, I think you KNOW WHO THOSE GUYS are and WHY the GLOBE TOOK THE PARAGRAPHS DOWN, huh? It's called CENSORSHIP and COVER UP!!!!
The Chinese government accuses the Dalia Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, of encouraging separatism, but the Dalia Lama says he advocates genuine autonomy for all ethnic Tibetan areas of China, not seccession.
A senior Chinese police official said yesterday that security was also being tightened along the border areas of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The official said that security forces "will firmly crack down on criminal activities in Tibet's border area that pose a threat to China's sovereignty and government," Xinhua reported.
And when was the last time you heard about China before yesterday?
"China investigating illegal transplants for 17 Japanese tourists; Organ transfers for foreigners banned in '07" by Mark McDonald, New York Times | February 18, 2009
HONG KONG - China said yesterday that it was investigating whether 17 Japanese tourists had received illegal kidney and liver transplants in China.
"China strongly opposes organ transplant tourism," the Ministry of Health said on its website, adding that the hospitals and medical personnel "who carried out the organ transplants against the rules will be severely dealt with according to the law."
Everybody knows the globalists are running organ-harvesting rings around the world; how do you think the Bushes, Rockefellers, et al, are surviving so long?
Of course, the lone glimpse you are getting is of the barbaric yellow people in my racist, Zionist War Daily. Par for the course.
China has banned all transplants for foreigners - so-called "organ tourists" - because an estimated 1.5 million Chinese are on waiting lists for transplants. The ban was issued May 1, 2007. It was not immediately clear whether news of the scandal would inflame anti-Japanese sentiment in China. Relations between the two countries are fragile, with old hurts still sensitive.
Yeah, Japan's brutal occupation and HOLOCAUST of the CHINESE is EASILY FORGOTTEN in the ZIONIST-SOAKED and INCULCATED WEST! Same with the WEST'S OPIUM-INDUCED AGITATIONS of EMPIRE!
The ministry's investigation, reported in the state-run newspaper China Daily, comes after a report by the Japanese news agency Kyodo News that the 17 tourists had spent the equivalent of $87,000 each for the operations. The price reportedly included travel, accommodation, and 20 days of treatment at a hospital in Guangzhou, in southern China.
At the request of the hospital, some of the Japanese patients registered under Chinese names, the Kyodo report said. Most of the patients were between 50 and 65 years old. The agency also said most of the organs were likely harvested from executed Chinese prisoners.
Chinese officials have said the state uses prisoners' organs only if they have been voluntarily donated. Courts, doctors, health officials, and hospitals must approve such transplants and the prisoners must agree in writing, the government said.
China Daily reported that China is second only to the United States in the number of transplant operations performed each year. "Due to the lack of organ donors, shortage of organs is a problem in all countries, not just China," Mao Qunan, a Health Ministry spokesman, said at a recent press briefing....
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An investigation in China in 2004 by the British newspaper The Independent found a flourishing underground trade in organ sales and transplants, especially for Japanese patients. And in 2006 a reporter from the BBC went to a public hospital in the city of Tianjin, ostensibly to arrange a liver transplant for his ailing father. The reporter said hospital officials told him a suitable liver could be available in three weeks.
Earlier this month, after years of controversy over organ trafficking in China, the government said it would establish a registry for organ donors and recipients. Kyodo News also reported in November that the police in Yokohama were questioning a 52-year-old Japanese man on suspicion of brokering organ transplants for Japanese tourists in China.
A court in Shenyang, China, had previously found the man guilty of false advertising in connection with an alleged organ-transplant brokerage he ran over the Internet. Hiroyuki Nagase, who received a 14-month prison term and a fine in China, was deported to Japan after serving his sentence. --more--""Clashes over Tibet lead to lockdown" by Washington Post | February 19, 2009
BEIJING - The county of Lithang in the Tibetan autonomous region was under lockdown this week after clashes between Chinese security forces and Tibetan monks, laypeople, and nomads, according to residents.
Zhou Xiujun, owner of a grocery store, said she witnessed a small protest near the county's main vegetable market Sunday that escalated into a much larger one about lunchtime Monday.
On the second day, she said saw several hundred Tibetans gathered downtown, shouting "Long Live the Dalai Lama," the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists who lives in exile in India. In minutes, she said, police arrived and a melee ensued.
At least one Tibetan protester was swinging a stick, she said, and others were throwing stones until police subdued them. Officials confirmed the incident but would not answer questions. The activist group Free Tibet said the protests were the largest in Tibet since violence last spring that killed at least 18 civilians and one police officer. --more--"
The peaceful, nonviolent Tibetans being.... violent?
BEIJING - .... China's State Council, or Cabinet, also struck back last night with a report on the state of human rights in the United States. The document detailed a host of social problems including violent crime, a wide wealth gap, police abuse of force, racial discrimination and unemployment. It also blamed the United States for human rights abuses overseas in places like Iraq. --more--"
Yeah, somehow USrael's and the West's transgressions and crimes are not such a concern.
And the "threat" from China (as the U.S. spends more than the rest of the world combined on "defense"):
BEIJING - China announced a nearly 15 percent increase in military spending yesterday - a smaller boost than in previous years - as the national legislature prepared to open its annual session with a focus firmly on overcoming the country's brewing economic crisis.
The 14.9 percent increase in defense spending is the lowest in three years, a possible reflection of shifting priorities amid plans for a $586 billion stimulus package and a $124 billion spending boost to expand and revamp an inadequate healthcare system.
"There seems to be concern with the slowing economy. . . . They may want to keep down spending as a percentage of the economic output," said Christian Le Miere, senior Asia analyst at Jane's Country Risk in London.
Today's opening session of the National People's Congress will unveil a national budget that features a hefty stimulus plan to reinvigorate the economy and ward off the global economic downturn. China's leadership believes that maintaining a strong rate of growth is essential to creating jobs, raising incomes and staving off unrest in a society that has grown used to steadily rising standards of living. Economic growth of anything less than 7 percent or 8 percent, some officials say, would strain stability.
Isn't it sad that Communist China cares more about its people than "free" AmeriKa?
In announcing the defense spending, Li Zhaoxing, a spokesman for the national legislature, played down worries about China's military might, saying the boost was "modest" and suitable for the world's third-largest economy. He said much of the additional funding would go toward boosting salaries. --more--"
Yeah, they want to keep those soldiers happy, or you-know-what could happen.
And please, readers. See what garbage they are filling up the paper with on a regular basis?
"Band says Beijing canceled rock concert over Tibet issue"
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Just one more chance to flog, 'eh, MSM?
Also see China for more.
