"Just two weeks after the Obama Pentagon crowed that the recent US-China military-to-military talks were practically the best ever, Beijing’s navy confronted a US ship operating in international waters in the South China Sea.
Talk about a cold, hard slap of reality.
The naval affair was eerily reminiscent of the 2001 EP-3 incident, in which a clumsy Chinese fighter collided with a US Navy plane in the same area. Beijing dispatched five ships to shadow and intimidate the unarmed US research vessel, which was conducting ocean surveillance in the vicinity of Hainan Island off southern China. The flotilla came as close as 25 feet to the USNS Impeccable before finally backing off."
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