DAILY DIALECTIC
May 06, 2009
China demonstrated its growing naval confidence again in the latest standoff between American and Chinese ships. The fifth such incident in two months occurred on Friday in the Yellow Sea when a US Navy surveillance ship turned its fire hoses on two Chinese fishing vessels... The USNS Victorious, an ocean surveillance ship designed for anti-submarine warfare and underwater mapping, was conducting what the Pentagon called routine operations in the waters between China and the Korean peninsula. The Chinese vessels came within 100ft of the vessel...

  • Chinese and American ships clash again in Yellow Sea