November 28, 2007

China’s Thanksgiving rebuff to USS Kitty Hawk called power play over Taiwan

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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A Chinese Navy destroyer fires a missile during a training exercise in the South China Sea on Nov. 17.   AP/Xinhua, Zha Chunming
 

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.
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The USS Kitty Hawk returns to the Yokosuka U.S. naval base in Japan, on Nov. 27.                                                                   AFP/Toshifumi Kitamura
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