FORGET TRUMP! We need to watch....Navy aircraft carrier group moves into contested South China Sea

[mfcorey1]

The U.S. Navy has dispatched an aircraft carrier and several ships accompanying it into the South China Sea in the last few days, a deployment of thousands of U.S. sailors to a region a top U.S. admiral said last week is increasingly militarized by China.

The USS John C. Stennis, the carrier, arrived in the South China Sea on Tuesday, Navy officials said. It is accompanied by the cruiser USS Mobile Bay and the destroyers USS Stockdale and USS Chung-Hoon, said Navy Cmdr. Clay Doss, a spokesman for U.S. Pacific Fleet. The ships arrived in the Western Pacific on Feb. 4 on a deployment from the West Coast of the United States.

Doss said the carrier is carrying out a routine patrol of the South China Sea, where China has in recent weeks moved Chinese fighter jets, military radar and surface-to-air missiles. The Navy will continue to appear in the South China Sea regularly, Doss said. Pacific Fleet ships spending a combined 700 days there last year.

[China testing Obama as it expands its influence in the South China Sea]

Aside from the carrier group, the Japan-based USS Antietam, a cruiser, also is currently patrolling the South China Sea, Doss said. The USS McCambell, a destroyer, and the USS Ashland, an amphibious dock landing ship, completed similar patrols last week.

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. "Routine Patrol" eh? Look up FONOP and the Paracel Islands...

and have fun with the background of China's understanding that its relationship with the South China Sea is not too different from ours with the Gulf of Mexico.

China has been militarizing this area for years, and with us being the last superpower (for now) we are kind of stuck into sticking our nose into things over there.

I don't know which candidate has the best chance of keeping us out of war with China over this-- if any of them can.

(But I'm pretty sure it's not Trump)

[underpants]

2. A topic that gets next to no coverage

Thanks for keeping it in front of people's eyes.

[FLPanhandle]

3. China is starting their own "Monroe Doctrine"

They want to dominate all the countries they view as in their "Sphere of Influence".

[lindysalsagal]

4. Wonder if it has anything to do with n Korea's security council sanctions

I'd love to see Obama open n Korea and save those starving people before he goes

[bemildred]

5. More stupid provocations from the Pentagon. nt