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While the U.S. Navy's encounter with five small Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz on January 6 resulted in widespread media coverage and aggressive posturing from the Bush administration, a much more serious naval encounter in November in the Taiwan Strait passed unremarked, both by the administration and by the press.
According to the Navy Times, which sourced its information from a Chinese-language daily newspaper in Taiwan, the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk and its battle group found themselves in a standoff with a Chinese Navy destroyer and submarine beginning on November 23.
According to the report, the U.S. carrier battle group was returning to its home port in Japan after China suddenly canceled a long-scheduled holiday port call in Hong Kong. Entering the international waters of the Taiwan Strait, the Kitty Hawk and the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Carrier battle group in naval standoff with China.(Inside...