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This Is How Wars Start
Posted by Mark Thompson Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 12:37 pm
5 Comments • Related Topics: China, National Security, Navy , Philippines

The ex-U.S. Navy minesweeper that tangled with a Chinese vessel Tuesday / Wiki photo

You know it's never a good sign involving shipping on the contested high seas near China and the Philippines when the phrase "`accidental' collision" appears in the first sentence of a news story -- with the word accidental in quotes.

Reports Wednesday's Philippine Star newspaper:

MANILA, Philippines - An “accidental” collision with a Navy gunboat on patrol in the West Philippine Sea yesterday forced a large Chinese fishing vessel to beat a hasty retreat, leaving behind 25 smaller boats it was towing...

“As our patrolling ship was approaching to check on the encroaching Chinese vessels, it incurred a steering problem and accidentally hit the mother ship of the Chinese fishermen,” [a senior Philippine military officer] said. He said big waves affected the ship's steering, causing it to move uncontrollably toward the Chinese vessels.

Wait until the Chinese discover that the Philippine vessel involved -- one of the oldest warships still sailing -- was originally a U.S. Navy warship. The Savannah Machine and Foundry Co. in Savannah, Ga., built the 222-foot ship in the final days of World War II. The U.S. Navy commissioned it the same month the U.S. military dropped a pair of atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II.

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• 航母在黄海军演也忍了，这点小事，部署未必，也先忍了。不忍也得忍。 -炅龙- ♂ (50 bytes) () 10/22/2011 postreply 21:03:32

• 黄海军演，北京可是在有效射程之内的！项庄之剑，孰不为共军尝胆之辱？！ -炅龙- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/22/2011 postreply 21:08:55

• 非撞船可是非军舰非法在中国的地方撞中国渔船，和航母在黄海军演毕竟不同。 -没底- ♂ (200 bytes) () 10/22/2011 postreply 22:11:34

• 古巴可不是美国领土，苏联想要部署导弹，肯尼迪就把古巴封锁了。 -炅龙- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/23/2011 postreply 00:49:45

• 论真威胁，黄海可比菲危险多了。 -炅龙- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/23/2011 postreply 00:51:37

• 钓鱼岛也没干啥，就抗议不断。 -炅龙- ♂ (57 bytes) () 10/23/2011 postreply 00:54:13

• 你这题目看得我晕头转向，应该是“菲撞船可是菲军舰非法在中国的地方撞中国渔船”吧 -jh168- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/23/2011 postreply 02:15:32

• 是，据说让。。实效的手段是火星文 - 中国人东，一般亡特卜咚，程序过率不了。。。 -没底- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/23/2011 postreply 09:46:54