China: Navy spat not a misunderstanding. Response to the Dalai Lama

[tekisui]

BEIJING - China hinted Thursday that Congress' honoring of the Dalai Lama and U.S. arms sales to Taiwan led it to cancel a U.S. Navy visit to Hong Kong, an incident that could open a new rift in military relations that had warmed in recent years.

The Pentagon summoned a Chinese military attache to protest the decision, which the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, called "perplexing." President Bush raised the issue with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi during their talks on North Korea, Iran and other issues.

Last week's incident has added an unusual twist to Chinese-U.S. relations, which have been strained in recent months by disputes over trade and Iran's nuclear program.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao did not draw a direct connection between any specific event and China's barring of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk and its escort vessels from entering Hong Kong harbor for a planned Thanksgiving visit.

However, he said a report from Washington that quoted Yang as calling the incident a misunderstanding was "not in line with the facts." He said ties had been "disturbed and harmed" by U.S. actions.

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[SharkSquid]

1. We will do anything to

suck at China's teat.

We are lousy world leaders.

We let them watch us wargame in the Pacific a few months ago, geez.

[SharkSquid]

2. They were still pretty lousy to deny our minesweeps

safe harbor.

THAT was fucked up.

[Selatius]

3. We will agree with China. We must. They make all of our products.

Forget the Tibetans. The People's Liberation Army could run over a thousand Tibetans a day with tanks, and our government in collusion with Wall Street will simply ignore it or cover it up.

[hogwyld]

4. We better sure as hell, not piss off our masters

They have all of the industry that we USED to have. We would last about 2 weeks against them. They're already sending us into a greater depression with the collapsing dollar. And now, they're working on crippling our space based stuff. http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/ea_china_11_29.asp