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SCMP – Beijing denied a US aircraft carrier permission to make a port call in Hong Kong, a US consulate official says, a rejection that comes amid escalating tensions in the South China Sea.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry told the US on Thursday night the visit by the USS John C. Stennis would not be allowed, said the official, who requested anonymity.

US defence chief Ash Carter visited the Stennis earlier this month.

“[The ministry] needs to approve every ship coming into Hong Kong. [They] said ‘no’ to the carrier,” the official said, adding the reason for the denial was not clear.

In a written reply to the South China Morning Post’s inquiry, the ministry said on Friday night that port calls made by US warships and military aircraft were examined on a “case by case basis in accordance with sovereignty principles and specific circumstances”.

Carter flew to the nuclear-powered carrier for a two-hour visit on April 15, as it sailed about 100km west of the Philippine island of Luzon. Experts said the move likely irritated Beijing as Carter was accompanied by his Philippine counterpart, Voltaire Gazmin.

Last week, the US Pacific Command revealed they had sent six powerful A-10 Thunderbolt aircrafts near the Scarborough Shoal, which China occupies but Manila also claims.

The Chinese Defence Ministry had expressed concern over the flight.

It’s not the first time China has turned down port calls by US warships. During the Thanksgiving holidays in 2007, Beijing rejected the USS Kitty Hawk’s visit to Hong Kong after Washington announced an advanced missile deal with Taiwan and US President George W. Bush met the Dalai Lama.

However, the Kitty Hawk was allowed to dock in the city five month later in April 2008, as Sino-US military relations returned to normal.

The Stennis carrier strike group is currently operating in the South China Sea, where China has territorial disputes with the Philippines, Vietnam and other Asian countries.

The consulate said it had originally arranged public tours aboard the Stennis for next Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Cancellation notices had been sent out to invitees, the consulate official said.

SOURCE: SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

5 thoughts on “American “Exceptionalism” – US aircraft carrier denied entry to Hong Kong”
  1. Why would the US request entry to Hong Kong and why would China ever grant permission for that? The US hasn’t been friendly to China.

  2. China as a sovereign nation has every right to deny a US aircraft carrier permission to make a port call in Hong Kong. I am glad that China has stood up against US provocations and rejected the “American Exceptionalism”,

    @ shafarnulifidian

    “It’s about time that someone says to the most warmongering, terrorist sponsoring country on the planet.”

    I don’t agree with you what you stated in the above statement. I will say Israel is the most warmongering, terrorist sponsoring country on the planet. America comes next, simply because America is a ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government). The tail wags the dog.

    From what I understand, most Chinese consider U.S. is the enemy and don’t know who’s the hidden hand behind it. All these wars, miseries, destructions, sufferings, chaos have been caused by Judaism inspired Zionism/JWO. TUT is one of the best websites for understanding and learning this complicated geopolitical, spiritual war that we are engaging.

    猶太王羅死劫(Rothschilds) 主導的世界新秩序是當今人類最大的禍患。

  3. Long before the establishment of the cesspit that is Israel, the United States of America terrorized itself into existence from the Atlantic to the Pacific, slaughtering perhaps as many as a100 million of indigenous Native Americans. It wiped out the Plains Indians by slaughtering almost to extinction the American bison, which we know as the buffalo. The buffalo provided meat, skins for clothing, and housing. The very purpse for the slaughter was to deprive these people of the means to sustain themselves.
    America has NEVER BEEN GREAT. Powerful yes, but great, not hardly! The best that can be said is that there were some periods in its history when it was not quite as terrorizing as as other periods.

    In what can only characterized as a combination of supreme irony and monumental hypocrisy, recently Congress voted to designate the American Bison as the National Mammal.

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