August 15, 2011
USS George Washington, photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Summer M. Anderson The August 11 Wall Street Journal article “China Flexes Naval Muscle” by Jeremy Page reporting from Beijing began: China sent its first aircraft carrier to sea, a defining moment in its effort to become a top-tier naval power that seeks to challenge U.S. [...]
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July 18, 2011
“[The U.S. has] had a presence in the Western Pacific and the South China Sea for 50 to 60 years, even going back before World War II,” Rear Adm. Tom Carney, who is leading the naval exchange, told reporters in Danang [Vietnam], according to the Associated Press. “We have no intention of departing from that [...]
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