Are we allies or adversaries with China? China covers their bases, with an invite they attend the massive RIMPAC exercise for the first time with their state of the art Aegis-class destroyer. And at they same time they send an uninvited electronic spy ship, to shadow the exercise too. This may signal competing factions or confusion in Chinese leadership, at the top too. Weve also just had a very close call with a Chinese fighter and one of our brand new P-8 electronic spy planes, in the same location a Chinese fighter accidentally rammed a P-3, forcing it to barely land on Chinese soil in 2001. This time, the fighter barrel rolled over the top of our plane; its easy to imagine it accidentally hitting us again. ___________ According to some who were aboard the CVN 76 USS Ronald Reagan at the time, at first they thought they must be mistaken: the Chinese would not have sent a spy ship to gather intelligence on a maritime exercise in which their country was actually participating. But they did. This was the first time the Chinese had ever been invited to take part in the annual Rim of the Pacific (Rimpac) exercise, which took place in international waters off the Hawaii coast last month, and also the first known incident in which a participant nation spied on the event. With Rimpac now over, the question remains: Why would a country that so impressed the world’s navies with the capabilities and performance of its most sophisticated destroyer during the exercise – the guided missile destroyer CNS 171 Haikou – taint that showing and insult its hosts by spying?--Aviation Week aviationweek/military-government/why-did-china-participate-rimpac-one-ship-and-spy-it-another
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 14:30:18 +0000
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