WELL, MAYBE HERE WILL BE A DISTRACTION FROM THE IRAQ AND SYRIA SITUATION. Really does he have to send this carrier there, or is he provoking a tense issue. The Navy is sending a second aircraft carrier strike group to the Asia Pacific region amid new tensions with China over a dangerous aerial encounter between a Chinese interceptor and Navy P-8 surveillance craft. The strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson departed San Diego for the Pacific on Friday, the Navy said in an announcement of what it terms a “planned” deployment. China’s military on Saturday, meanwhile, demanded an end to all U.S. monitoring flights and called U.S. criticism of dangerous Chinese jet maneuvers false. Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said in a statement that a Chinese fighter jet made a “regular identification and verification” of the Navy P-8 anti-submarine warfare jet during an encounter in an area 135 miles east of Hainan Island. Yang called Pentagon criticism of the incident “totally groundless” and insisted the Chinese pilot operated professionally and kept a safe distance. freebeacon/national-security/u-s-sends-second-carrier-to-asia-amid-tensions-with-china/
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 05:42:04 +0000
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