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posted by martyb on Friday June 19 2020, @05:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the trying-to-take-focus-off-domestic-problems? dept.

Three US Navy carriers deployed to Indo-Pacific waters:

The Trump administration deployed the USS Ronald Reagan, USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Nimitz to the region, with each containing more than 60 aircraft.

[...] The Chinese government, which has also increased its military presence in the region, responded swiftly, warning that “countermeasures” could be taken against the US.

[...] The USS Ronald Reagan and the USS Theodore Roosevelt are currently patrolling in the western Pacific, while the USS Nimitz is in the east, according to US Navy press releases.

It’s an unusual move; the last deployment of US aircraft carriers in the Pacific of this size was back in 2017, when tensions with North Korea over nuclear weapons were peaking.

The US launched the deployment on June 4, after a coronavirus outbreak forced the USS Roosevelt into port in Guam in March, which saw more than 1000 of the ship's nearly 4900-member crew test positive for the virus.

[...] “Carriers and carrier strike groups writ large are phenomenal symbols of American naval power. I really am pretty fired up that we’ve got three of them at the moment,” said Rear Admiral Stephen Koehler, director of operations at Indo-Pacific Command in Hawaii.

[...] “By massing these aircraft carriers, the US is attempting to demonstrate to the whole region and even the world that it remains the most powerful naval force, as they could enter the South China Sea and threaten Chinese troops on the Xisha and Nansha islands (Paracel and Spratly Islands) as well as vessels passing through nearby waters, so the US could carry out its hegemonic politics,” the Global Times report quoted Li Jie, a Beijing-based naval expert, as saying.

It also noted that Beijing could hold drills in response to show off its firepower.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by tangomargarine on Saturday June 20 2020, @08:10PM (1 child)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Saturday June 20 2020, @08:10PM (#1010458)

    They call that Revanchism [wikipedia.org], and it's basically how we got WWII: Hitler was in WWI and got pissy because German lost, among other reasons. Fast forward a handful of years and he's the guy starting the next big war.

    China has no hegemonic desires. China wishes to restore balance and harmony in the region by restoring the situation to the historic norm

    They had a hegemony there before. So wanting to restore your hegemony isn't "hegemonic desires"?

    which was forcibly taken from it by imperialists and other enemies of the Central Kingdom.

    I mean yeah, but damn, could you sound more like propaganda?

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  • (Score: 1) by pTamok on Sunday June 21 2020, @04:30PM

    by pTamok (3042) on Sunday June 21 2020, @04:30PM (#1010691)

    Thank you for the technical term covering this.

    As for sounding like propaganda: if you noticed: Well Done! Unfortunately for many, it is not propaganda, it is The Truth.

    Will it look/sound more like propaganda if I make it less, or more, believable?