Chinese Navy “Moons” U.S. Vessel
In a breaking story Monday morning, the Chinese navy has pulled a high school-style prank on a U.S. vessel in the South China sea. Reportedly, a Chinese intelligence ship and four other vessels surrounded the USNS Impeccable, came dangerously close to the ship and then Chinese crew members sprayed the U.S. vessel with fire hoses, stripped down to their underwear and, as MSNBC reported, “mooned” the U.S. Navy. According to an AP report, the Obama administration is protesting the aggression to the Chinese government, to be delivered to Beijing on Monday. MSNBC is reporting that a day earlier, Chinese planes circled the Impeccable 11 times, proclaimed that the U.S. ship was operating illegally and ordered the ship to cease operations or “suffer the consequences.” It remains unclear whether the mooning was a full moon or a half moon or whether Chinese soldiers used the preferred pre-mooning question, “How about this black hole?”
Photo: USNS Impeccable
I wonder what the U.S.A. would do …if a Chinese military ship was just off the East or West coast? And yet, we believe we have the right to be snooping around in the South China seas, and they have no say in the matter.
I’m not surprised everyone around the world knows what a joke of a president we have …the laughing stock of the whole world.
If the chinease think they own the whole sea in that area they are mistaken. You think because it is called the south china sea, they own it all? Hell the gulf of mexico is not owned by mexico. China only has rights within the 12 miles of sea…the rest is international waters. I would blow every chinese ship out of the water if I was in charge.
Rachel, your dumb and prolly racist. Dave, regardless of the fact China is acting out of turn making themselves look like the apes we depicted them to be in the 50’s. Truth, way to go.
Our ship was in international waters and this was an overt act of aggression, which could lead to a war. They have every right to keep a close eye on our ship, but not to interfere with it in any fashion.
By spraying it with fire hoses and coming dangerously close, they risk causing a defensive action. I can’t say that I know how our ship is armed, but being that it is a U.S. Navy vessel, I would assume that it is.
you can take the monkies out of the jungle but you can’t take the jungle out of the monkies..
If America responds to that childish behavior with force I will be outraged. I say we create a new division of the U.S. Military to handle these situations appropriately: BARF (Buffoonish Action Retaliation Force).
Reading the story from msnbc the USNS Impeccable
sprayed at the chinese ship at 25 feet the chinese
retaliated with moon shots. Repeat China did not spray the Impeccable. get it right morons.