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| November 28, 2007 |
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Senior U.S. government officials last week expressed puzzlement at the Chinese government’s last-minute refusal to permit the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk and supporting warships to dock in Hong Kong.
But intelligence officials said the move was a power play by the Chinese military, which regards U.S. carriers as the main threat to its plans for Taiwan.
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Large-scale PLA war games caught China's neighbors by surprise, signaled new power projection strategy Among the many mysteries surrounding the PLA’s large-scale maneuvers off the southeast Chinese coast last week is its timing: the war games were sandwiched between Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ high-profile tour of Beijing earlier this month and the visit to Japan this week by the PLA navy’s Shenzhen missile destroyer.The USS Kitty Hawk returns to the Yokosuka U.S. naval base in Japan, on Nov. 27. AFP/Toshifumi Kitamura |
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