Russia isn't the only Communist power rattling its sabre nowadays. Here's an enlightening editorial from Investor's Business Daily about China's latest actions.China's closing of its ports to the U.S. Navy is another action by a hostile power. So why are we turning the other cheek to a dictatorship that threatens us?
Apparently the phrase "any port in a storm" does not translate well into Chinese. Two U.S. minesweepers, the USS Patriot and the USS Guardian, found that out when they requested refuge in Hong Kong from an approaching storm and were refused by Chinese authorities in clear violation of long-standing naval tradition.
This incident did not receive as much coverage as the cancellation of a Thanksgiving port visit by the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk [photo at left] several days later, when hundreds of family members of the battle group's 8,000 sailors had traveled to Hong Kong to spend Thanksgiving Day with their sons and daughters.
China apparently was protesting, without officially saying so, the recent visit of the Dalai Lama to Washington to receive the Congressional Gold Medal. It was also miffed by a $939 million sale of upgraded Patriot missile systems to Taiwan, including ground equipment that will allow three of Taiwan's missile batteries to fire the state-of-the-art PAC-3 missile...
