Beijing raises stakes with tit-for-tat deployment

Started by jimmy olsen, March 15, 2009, 10:14:38 PM

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Ed Anger

#15
March 16, 2009, 08:52:10 AM
Quote from: PDH on March 16, 2009, 08:51:00 AM
I have never jingoed, I have a bad knee.

I jingoed 3 women at one time once. it was exhausting.
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PDH

#16
March 16, 2009, 08:53:03 AM
Quote from: Cindy Brady on March 16, 2009, 08:52:10 AM
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Ed Anger

#17
March 16, 2009, 08:55:21 AM
Quote from: PDH on March 16, 2009, 08:53:03 AM
Quote from: Cindy Brady on March 16, 2009, 08:52:10 AM
That is why you are the master, I am merely the apprentice.

But you get to smite and crush the dreams of freshmen, something I can only dream about.
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PDH

#18
March 16, 2009, 08:57:40 AM
True.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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Razgovory

#19
March 16, 2009, 10:23:45 AM
Quote from: Berkut on March 16, 2009, 08:26:33 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 16, 2009, 12:16:56 AM
The last administration backed down when the Chinese tested him.

All the more reason to not back down now.

Back down for from what?  You fight up, not down.  The US won't reconize the insane Chinese territorial waters demands.  Nobody will.  There's nothing to back down from here.
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The Minsky Moment

#20
March 16, 2009, 11:37:59 AM
So . . .

We send a destroyer and they counter by sending  . . . a converted rescue vessel.

OMG Go to DEFCON 2 immediately!

Wake me up when something of actual significance happens.
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Ed Anger

#21
March 16, 2009, 12:46:39 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on March 16, 2009, 11:37:59 AM
So . . .

We send a destroyer and they counter by sending  . . . a converted rescue vessel.

OMG Go to DEFCON 2 immediately!

Wake me up when something of actual significance happens.

They could have sent one of their submarines but it easy to see them, as they surface a lot and belch smoke from all the fires they have.
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Berkut

#22
March 16, 2009, 12:53:23 PM
Quote from: Cindy Brady on March 16, 2009, 12:46:39 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on March 16, 2009, 11:37:59 AM
So . . .

We send a destroyer and they counter by sending  . . . a converted rescue vessel.

OMG Go to DEFCON 2 immediately!

Wake me up when something of actual significance happens.

They could have sent one of their submarines but it easy to see them, as they surface a lot and belch smoke from all the fires they have.

The automatic sprinkler/alarm systems are doing wonders to reduce sub losses, but they really play havoc with the stealthiness.
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The Minsky Moment

#23
March 16, 2009, 01:11:33 PM
The Yuzheng 311: http://www.sinodefence.com/navy/fisheries/showimage.asp?imagename=yuzheng311large

The USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93): http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/05019317.jpg

The Yuzheng 311 is classified by the Chinese Navy as a Fisheries Law Enforcement Vessel.

It's like countering a deployment of a carrier strike group by dispatching the "Love Boat"
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Berkut

#24
March 16, 2009, 01:45:54 PM
I'll bet that ship is pretty expensive. You think they could have sprung for a window though.
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Tamas

#25
March 16, 2009, 01:54:25 PM
Its good to know the familiar world-wide solution to economic problems will be used: war.

Ed Anger

#26
March 16, 2009, 02:21:00 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on March 16, 2009, 01:11:33 PM
The Yuzheng 311: http://www.sinodefence.com/navy/fisheries/showimage.asp?imagename=yuzheng311large

The USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93): http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/05019317.jpg

The Yuzheng 311 is classified by the Chinese Navy as a Fisheries Law Enforcement Vessel.

It's like countering a deployment of a carrier strike group by dispatching the "Love Boat"

Hey now, Captain Stubing was a first class tactician.
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The Minsky Moment

#27
March 16, 2009, 03:21:11 PM
The AEGIS system has been upgraded to handle unexpected guest appearances by zombie Buddy Hackett.
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Ed Anger

#28
March 16, 2009, 04:07:51 PM
That would be an exciting and new adventure.
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Warspite

#29
March 16, 2009, 05:23:09 PM
I'm going to reinstall Navy Strike.
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