Does anyone know anything about ....

[butterfly77]

china spying on america with submarines...

[Mythsaje]

1. Why would they bother, honestly?

It was probably a bunch of bored Chinese bubbleheads trying to entertain themselves.

China could whoop our butt with half its army tied behind its back. I doubt they have any reason to actually "spy" on one of our ships.

[Orsino]

7. They have the perfect reason.

If they could sneak up on a carrier group, record useful data, and slip away without detection, the captain would be a major stud, and the hero of the fleet.

Seriously, this sort of observation is nothing unusual in international waters. If the sub had surfaced, the crews might have waved at one another.

[Mythsaje]

9. I wonder how much "useful" data they could get that they

don't already possess.

Otherwise, you're right. It's like "counting coup."

[H2O Man]

2. I saw it reported

on Fox today. I suppose many countries spy on other countries.

[zreosumgame]

3. I do remember our spy plane they brought down

only the first time dubaya blinked like a deer caught in the headlights...

[yellowdogmi]

5. I served with the flight engineer that was on that mission.

Great guy. Explained to me all about thermocouples.

[zreosumgame]

11. those people were in an impossible position

and dumbaya was as ineffective and wimpy as ever, only made it worse

[yellowdogmi]

12. I've flown in those planes

I would not have wanted to be on that one. It was a miracle no one was killed. That flight crew should have recieved a medal just for landing that plane.

[yellowdogmi]

4. There was a post here yesterday

about one of their submarines within close range of one of our carriers.

[jaxx]

6. Link here

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061113/pl_afp/uschinamilitarysubmarine_061113131753

[Catherine Vincent]

8. I heard a frantic cspan caller this a.m. mention that.

I don't know where he heard it from.

[rustydog]

10. America spies on other nations as a matter of national security

It was really bad during the " Cold War".
why wouldn't China do this, or Russia, England?

it is a natural part of any nation's security program to spy on others.