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Three Chinese Warships To Dock In Florida Port
At a time when the US and China are practically at arms over the artificial islands in the South China Seas, with the US sending warships on location to patrol (despite White House Spokesman Josh Earnest saying on Oct. 8 that U.S. warships "should not provoke significant reaction from the Chinese") and a stunned China responding "What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This", the last thing we thought we would see right now was three Chinese warships about to port in Florida's Naval Station Mayport.
And yet according to USNI that is precisely what is about to happen: citing US Navy officials, USNI reports that he three ships about to dock in the US are the Type 052C Luyang II-class guided-missile destroyer Jinan (152), the Type 054A Jiangkai II-class guided-missile frigate Yiyang (548) and the Type 903 Fuchi-class fleet oiler Qiandao Hu (886).
Type 52 Luyang II guided missile destroyer Jinan
"Three vessels are on an around-the-world deployment and will conduct the goodwill visit after completing port calls in Europe,” read a statement from Navy Region Southeast. "The amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) will serve as the host ship. In Mayport, sailors from both navies will participate in sporting events and interact during ship tours."
The close navy encounters go both ways: yesterday, a collection of about two dozen U.S. naval officers paid a visit to the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning in China, according to Chinese state controlled press and confirmed by the Navy.
U.S. officials would not elaborate if there would be an at-sea training component to the visit slated to run from Nov. 3rd to the 7th.
What makes the visit particularly awkward is that, as Navy officials stressed, the visit was planned months in advance and comes just as Washington and Beijing are at loggerheads over territorial possessions in the South China Sea.
It is also notable, that in addition to the Mayport visit, China has sent the flotilla to first ever port visits in the Baltic Sea in ports like Stolkholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland as part of the world tour. Perhaps it is just part of China's due diligence.
Some US Congressmen are not too happy about the Chinese visit: "While the U.S. has been fervently cultivating military-to-military exchanges, China’s behavior at sea has not tracked with its rhetoric of a ‘peaceful rise’,” read a Thursday statement from Rep. Randy Forbes, from the chair of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces, to USNI News.
“Engagement like the upcoming Chinese visit to Mayport should not be done purely for engagement’s sake, and I hope that in addition to increased transparency, we start to see China moderate its other destabilizing activities.”
However, the most interesting news is that according to the US Naval Institute, despite much posturing, the Obama administration has not yet dispatched ship toward China, and instead has been merely weighing for weeks whether or not it will send a freedom of navigation mission within 12 nautical miles — the internationally recognized maritime border — of features in the Spratly and Paracel China has reclaimed from the sea.
It would appear that Obama was once again all talk and once China threatened to call the U.S. bluff and warned it would use force, the US desire for confrontation promptly evaporated.
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To offload troops and supplies to combat domestic terrorism
Can always hold hands, tell folk tales and sing Kumbaya
No! My Dear Leader is a better Leader than your Dear Leader
Why is everything seemingly Pythonesque?
Does anyone here know the Mandarin translation of "Hello comrades. Thank you for saving us!"
It's so obvious China is being built up for WWIII, coming in 5-10 years. I hate my reality.
I would seriously prepare for a drastic acceleration of that time frame, unfortunately...
How much gold could those things carry? Chinese official overheard to say, "We Bai Bling"
Big refinery near their docking port.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article20051649.html
Repoed by Goldman
http://www.mining.com/chavez-gold-repatriation-blows-up-in-venezuelas-face/
Goldman may have brokered a deal. If the ships go on to dock in Venezuela that may be the case;
however you'd figure China and Venezuela would do their own dealings. Maybe they're transferring some
bling from the 2013 deal.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-11-25/what-is-goldman-sachs-d...
there goes ft knox.
I hope (for Republic Metals' sake) that Alan Silverstein isn't a relative of "Pull It" Larry... but since they suspect it was an inside job, the possibility needs to be examined.
Obama's probably even given them permission to cruise by the nearby Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Submarine_Base_Kings_Bay
In the event that the US starts a war with its confrontation in the South China Sea, these Chinese ships will be in a good location to launch lots of cruise missiles at US targets. Forward based nukes on US soil.
That's easy....
Repeat after me: Ni How, Ton Zi, shei Shei Ju wo
Ni How> Hello,
Comrades> Ton ZI
Thank you> Shei Shei
(for) Saving> Ju
us> wo
Here you go!
Hey, since the Russians are doing our job for us in Syria, can we ask the Chinese to protect our borders and blow up drug smugglers in the Gulf of Mexico?
I bet they won't have the problems that the US Coast Guard has.
Knuck, you mean like an anti-presstitute task force?
Chinese Art of War.
It is much easier to attack ones enemy when parked in her ports.
"It's easier to start a war when you can sink your enemies in your own ports."
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
It reminds me of this exchange from the Magnificent Seven, after Calverra just waltzed into town with his thugs.
Calvera: New wall.
Chris: There are lots of new walls, all around.
Calvera: They won't keep me out!
Chris: They were built to keep you in.
"Politics is the entertainment wing of the MIC/Banking complex"
We're being played like a fiddle folks!!
No, these visits were planned months ago - do you have any idea of the size of turning circle needed for something as huge as an overbloated obsolete navy?
China did say after Newtown Americans should be disarmed.
This brings a whole new meaning to "Horror Freight" --Reference to China's Harbor Freight that sells god awful tools.
If you only need to use them once, then they are a good deal. You might get to use them twice if you're lucky.
All bullshit. Just kill the fucking dollar will ya's.
Hello Sailor.....
Herrow round eye
I think they've stopped by to pick up 'murikan brides for Chinese men who answered ZeroHedge ads...
At least they got real cool boats, unlike the first wave of boat people arriving in Florida.
Wolverines East Side !!!!
Wi Fuk U Tu.
this calls for a Ramirez cartoon!
So did Barry give Jinping the keys to the white house?
If people around the White House start smelling Chinese food cooking instead of soul food that will be a good indicator.
Junping Jimmnie!
To drop off my Gen. Tso's take out order....it better be hot this time...
They should just dock in DC and shell the Fed.
Which one contains the Nuke for an EMP attack?
DUCK and COVER.
I am surprised that they didn't dock at the Port of Miami or up in Palm Beach County so that they could check on all their luxury real estate in both counties.
Problem with Chinese ships is soon after they dock once, they want to dock again.
That's an old joke. That's an old joke. That's an old jo-----
No, they just want to dock an hour later!
Maybe they were simply impressed by those US condoms that ISIS was ballooning, and they could use that quality back home, given that everyone back there is fucking up royally.
And American women can't understand why American men like Asian women so much.
Remember the RN visit in Kiel in 1914? The departing message was something along the lines of always friends forever friends, or something like that.
So if history repeats it self, we have two years until the equal speed Charlie London pennant.
I have come to the conclusion that its all theatre....China, Russia, etc are all in on the NWO, they just bicker a bit with each other in regards to pecking order. Even canada is abandoing the U.S. This was all planned, to bring down the united tates. But first they have to take down europe. The gig is up, The game is over, people best prepare.
Welcome to the most sane viewpoint in an insane world...
"Herro, we have derivery for Warmart."
We have them right where they want us.
did you not know 81% of Chinese Americans voted for Obama in 2012 ?
Too, 80% of Asian voters favor strict gun control. They might be nice people, but they are not good Americans.
Rick Scott offering free…. ‘comfort’.
This is what makes me believe that all the huffing and puffing is staged bullshit to keep us distracted while the NWO advances their agenda. There's no war against nations, it's a war of the elites versus people.
Trump already told us, all the news is lies.
When it's not just the 1 in 100,000 that reads ZeroHedge but the population at large that wakes up to this that everything will change.
Problem is, they don't want to wake up. Go back and watch old George Carlin videos. When he talks about how screwed we are by our lack of vigilance in defending our Constitution and that our govt controls everything in our lives, the crowd laughs nervously at times and claps when he makes a point. They know they're screwed, they know he is right--and yet they do nothing to change it. Becoming aware of what is really going on is scary shit. They're afraid to do so and even the few who do educate themselves realize that until the masses are aware nothing will change. True patriots like Snowden have tried to educate the masses. But did they stop using Facebook? Nope. Stop using an iPhone? Hell no. The masses don't want to awaken. It's no different than a drug addict or alcoholic. They have to hit absolute rock bottom and want to change before any treatment will be lasting. They want to stay in the Matrix. It's perverse, but true.
We just came for the Florida beach sand. How much for FOB freight on board price? Ok we take 12.5 miles worth.
All those empty containers leaving the US could be put to good use. I million tons finest sand, 1 million tons finest ballast, 1 million tons cement and send some US coolies too. We pay better than Whore Mart.
Remember the Maine...
Fuck it, I'm old and ready to go. Got a surplus Exocet or similar laying around?
So it was all but fraud to spark fear(possibly to move stocks), they actually cooperate with each other.
Deaths of millions don't matter. It takes fear of loss of elite wealth through threat of debt-currency implosion to get superpowers to cooperate and play nice.
What do the Chinese and American government(s) have in common?... Lots... and lots... and lots... and lots... a DEBT!!!!
Along with 1.6 billion citizen(s) collectively between them that don't see what is comin!
What's a few U.S. warships threatening you along with 5 or 6 uninvestigated "arson" incidence(s) in commerical ports that just "blew up" and killed several hundred people among such close business partners?... Nothing but a mutual "lover's spat"!...
Guess that "blood oath" that China and India made with the Bush Administration to help haul away "ground zero" runs deeper than anyone realizes...Or perhaps it goes back to Mao and Nixon toasting the new "union"?!!!
P.S.
Russia watcch your "six"... Cause you ain't got the market "tremors" those two have been undergoing these last few years!!!
Does this unexpected invitation to sunny Florida for talks include a voyage up North for "good delivery"?...
Wonder how many Au bars those Chinese destroyers can carry???
That would be crazy talk. Except:
"France sent a warship to New York harbor in early August 1971 with instructions to bring back its gold from the New York Federal Reserve Bank"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-kolb/august-15-1971_b_4284327.html
"France sent a warship to New York harbor in early August 1971 with instructions to bring back its gold from the New York Federal Reserve Bank"
Yes indeed that happened after "Dick" Nixon tied the chain around America's economic neck at the Bretton with the petrodollar....
But my point is the reverse. Is China picking up more "GLD" to take home with them? Or are they bringing it to Manhattan to play the game with the Anglo-American banking cartel because they made a deal and think they can string the "ponzi" out a little longer by working together?
If somebody was blowing my shit up at home like in Tianjin, I don't think their would be any cards left to play on the table but these are the games of delusional psychopaths anyway that look at their populations as a unit of labor and cost of doing business and nothing more!
China, India and the U.S. are very much like one another in that respect. Russia most definitely NOT! And the ultimate test will be which EU players want to abdicate from the Union and join a new chapter of "We The People" in Russia or go down with the "ship"!!!!
Interesting hypothesis. Conversation might go like this:
U.S.: Hey China, you know all that hypothecated gold we've been supplying the market that you've been taking delivery on? We're running out. Seriously, we couldn't even cash out the Germans last year - what a shit show. We really need some physical gold back as ammunition for our shorting operation. Need we mention this keeps the dollar valuable golbally, your $1.5T in Treasury Bond holdings valuable, your export business to the U.S. humming, and your economy booming and people not revolting?
China: Intriguing. But in case you haven't noticed, we really like our gold.
U.S.: Ok, ok. We'll also back down on foreign policy. And we'll print up the money to pay you $10,000/oz for the gold. And we promise to sell it right back to you over the next few years on the open market at $1,000/oz. All this must be kept beyond top secret, obviously.
China: Deal. We'll send over a waprship secretly transporting 5,000 tonnes of gold to you in sealed containers. No commercial shipping records will exist. Pleasure doing business with you.
Said it before, we've been colonized.
Our hide was mortgaged to the USSA's bankers.
On my visit to Pearl Harbor 2 weeks ago, we found a large contingent 50 or so Chinese sailors all in dressed whites without spot or wrinkle both men and some very! attractive woman scurrying about the battleship Missouri, taking pictures and having quite a time. My first thought was that they were Japanese though later one of the tour guides who was not very happy about it called them "those commies." I supposed the commies are comming whether we like it of not after all it was the US that saved their arses from those dirty filthy Japs.
Case in point Lazane these stories keep popping up only to be ignored by the majority in this Country.
When ZH was one of the first to come out with the news story of JP Morgans vaults being sold to the Chinese a few years ago the picture and "pattern" only gets wider every day.
If you speak with the average Chinese that live and work in the U.S. they have no intention of going back home and even though they stop short of coming across as an ex-pat you read the stories of the "fire sales" going on around us in this Country made possible by Washington countless times over the last two decades and you understand why the police state is in force to replace the useless blue passport carrying "bottom feeders" with the labor migrant(s) from China and India that just keep coming non-stop!
Keep your friends close,,and your enemies even closer.
Are the Chinese offering sunset party cruises?
THey are dropping off Treasuries and picking up our GOLD!
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You can't make this stuff up. Nation that says China is an enemy hosts their warships.
LM
Living in the most interesting of times.
Face. Front and back. They are all setting up their new borders and police regions. Hegemonies can only remain static for so long. Ukrain to Russia. Many asian seas and regions to China.
New borders. Expect Yuan to become part of basket of currencies soon, as the IMF is backing the 'new' China.
"despite much posturing, the Obama administration has not yet dispatched ship toward China."
Fat chance they ever will. Has any of you watched that last military parade in Beijing?
They have.
Take it, China. Enjoy the stupidity.
Scratch some of he paint off and it should say Lockheed Martin.
Ships are docked for annual maintenance checkup.
OOOOH fuck...they are gonna sink Disneyworld, crash the Florida economy, destroy their culture, and then rape their white women who are getting tired of big black dick.....
< China is in on NWO
< China is following their own agenda, is anti-NWO
What would really be sad is if a third possibility turned out to be and China was NWO and Russia was last man standing and the US, China and Europe united to take down Russia. Regardless, I am pretty sure Israel and many other places wouldn't live to see the New World Order in all it's demonic glory.
Collaboration more profitable than conflict if victory not assured.
Not surreal, just MIC on MIC.
Prolly getting a cruise ship motor installed.
I can just imagine the local call from the Chinese ship---- 523 orders of shrimp fried rice to pier 16
Oh good. They finally did my laundry. It's about time.
I send *my* shirts to Paris to be laundered.
and so it goes...
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Senior US Navy Officers Visit Chinese Aircraft Carrier
Oct 21, 2015, 7:31 AM ET
China hosted a visit this week to its sole aircraft carrier by senior U.S. Navy officers amid tensions over reported plans by Washington to challenge Beijing's territorial claims in the South China Sea.
The delegation of 27 commanders and captains boarded the Liaoning on Monday and held discussions on "exercise management, personnel training, medical protection and strategies in carrier development," the Chinese navy said on its official microblog.
Excuse prease. Which way to Disneyrand?
China and the U.S. have been on the same page since 1971!!
Wake the fuck up people.
Nope. They won't. Nationalistic bullshit still works on these idiots.
Yes. What makes the largest US retailers possible and profitable ?
(e.g. Wallmart, Target, CVS, Wallgreen, HomeDepot)
China makes everything for the low-end retail worldwide.
Won't change, until it does, after some massive worldwide collapse of existing regimes.
Next step: the Chinese invite US warships to visit their newly-dredged islands, so as to allow the US to steam close them, and do so without either losing face.
People who think that China is an enemy have a serious screw loose and should turn of their mainstream media propaganda conduit.
Our countries are massively codependent ... as per plan.
EMP the dead zone?
Donald, quick! Build a wall around Florida! The Chinese are coming! The Chinese are coming!
LMFAO!
Donald, quick! Build a wall around Florida! The Chinese are coming! The Chinese are coming!
LMFAO!
A reverse Yankee-Chinese gunboat diplomacy? The Chinese have very long memories.
Vote ... Stupid Leadership
Vote ... Smart Leadership trying to destroy Constitutional America
Did Trump say we in the US are being taken advantage of? We have either the stupidest leadership or the shrewdest (trying to destroy Constitutional America)
This has really screwed up my 2 minute hate.
. . . . with the US sending warships on location to patrol (despite White House Spokesman Josh Earnest saying on Oct. 8 that U.S. warships "should not provoke significant reaction from the Chinese") and a stunned China responding "What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This", the last thing we thought we would see right now was three Chinese warships about to port in Florida's Naval Station Mayport.
It's called Kabuki Theater . . . .
Sure, why not let them dock. Fill the tanks, check the oil...
If China wanted to attack they'd put a couple nukes in c-cans bound for Wallmart.
This coming war is largely by agreement. How much so we won't know for a decade.
If you can get onboard, opportunity to get some seriously authentic Chinese food without the airfare to China.
Hot pot?
Uhmmmm yummy! Hot pot!
Maybe so fu chi fapian?
are they on their way to permanent home in Cuba?
The #1 enemies of the American people are in the WH.
I gave you a green arrow 'cause you're on the right track, but ...
The Senate?
The House?
And don't forget the Supremes.
Tough call.
When warships are used for goodwill missions, you know something is wrong.
There is no way we (the US of A) are not going to invite 'Santa Clause"!
They are on a world tour. Put away your tinfoil hats.
http://cn.bing.com/search?q=Qiandao+Hu+%28886%29.&intlF=1&FORM=TIPEN1
Strapped for cash, we have leased out the ports to China and their war ships. It was a better deal than the time share originally offered. No longer wishing to except our printed play money as payment on our debt to them,China has suggested and the U.S. has agreed to use the barter system to settle our debt. Water from the great lakes, exclusive access to Disneyland for one week a year where only Chinese people will be allowed in the park, the tolls from the Golden Gate Bridge for 50 years, The Grand Canyon and Mount Rushmore and finally the complete evacuation and turn over to them the city of Detroit which they own most of anyway. They have offered to fund and build us a high speed rail the price is Yellowstone National Park, Donald Trump is handling the details of the deal.
Similar to the period prior to WW1 when the Royal Navy and German Navy visited each other. Soon after that they were lobbing shells at each other.
This is why headline news is always bullshit. You think the US Navy stopped making port calls in Hong Kong? There's practically a US Navy flotilla here every other month.
Seriously? That's not smart, but when was smart a part of "hope and change"??
I'm signing my butthurt report Sum Ting Wong