Pentagon issues formal protest to China
By USA TODAY
November 28, 2007
The Pentagon issued a formal protest to China on Wednesday over its refusal to permit a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier to make a planned Thanksgiving port visit to Hong Kong.
"We are expressing officially our displeasure with the incident," Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters. He said a Chinese military officer who is Beijing's defense attache in Washington was called to the Pentagon to accept the protest from a Pentagon Asia policy official. Morrell called it an "a formal protest, an official protest, complaint," for refusing port entry for the USS Kitty Hawk and its accompanying battle group.
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Tornado28 is right. China is not at all irrational, they are doing this to send a firm message. There have been a lot of things going on between China and Taiwan lately and the CCP is getting worried. Check it out.
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