Latest reports showing CHINA HAS JUST SEIZED A US VESSEL

MHz

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Why do you post ridiculous stuff like this? China doesn't have a navy! Here's a picture of the last seagoing vessels the Chinese had. They were junk.



Typical for you to post utter nonsense in order to further your childish agenda.
Really??
 

Curious Cdn

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China has the third most powerful navy, after the USA and Russia.

Taiwan, by the way, is #10.

http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/rich-countries/lets-sea-the-10-biggest-navies-in-the-world/

Canada isn't on this list but we're down around #40. There was a time, still within living memory, when our navy was #3 but Canadians don't give a sh1t about our three ocean coastline, apparently.

"... not my problem..." they say with a shrug. "Rich and powerful foreigners do it for us."
 

Cannuck

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I think this is where the sniffity sniff goes. :lol:
It's been all over the forum lately. One would think Trump lost the election given all the saltiness from the Trumpites. Perhaps you're just realizing how you've been snowed. Carrier thanks you though. They send extra love to Eaglesmack.
 

Danbones

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That was an appropriate use of caps, Danbones.


China 'seizes US vessel' in S China Sea

The US has issued a formal request to China to deliver an unmanned underwater drone that was seized in international waters, US officials say.

The Chinese navy seized the US underwater research vessel in the South China Sea on Thursday, the US alleges.

The incident took place just as the USNS Bowditch, an oceanographic survey ship, was about to retrieve it.

The device, dubbed an "ocean glider", was used to test water salinity and temperature, officials say.

The data was part of an unclassified programme to map underwater channels, Pentagon spokesman Capt Jeff Davis told reporters.

"It was taken" by China, Capt Davis said during a press briefing on Friday.

"The UUV [unmanned underwater vehicle] was lawfully conducting a military survey in the waters of the South China Sea," he added.

"It's a sovereign immune vessel, clearly marked in English not to be removed from the water - that it was US property."

The encounter occurred in the South China Sea about 50 miles (80km) northwest of Subic Bay, Philippines, the US says.

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/38347221?client=safari
lol
Now, the required punchline here is obviously:
"the only appropriate use of a caps on this thread would be one in your A$$"
but I realize it isn't very PC

you still mad about caps pasted in a quote?
ENCRUSTED or what?

if it has no men on it, a vessel on the high seas is salvage
 

MHz

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China has the third most powerful navy, after the USA and Russia.

Taiwan, by the way, is #10.

http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/rich-countries/lets-sea-the-10-biggest-navies-in-the-world/

Canada isn't on this list but we're down around #40. There was a time, still within living memory, when our navy was #3 but Canadians don't give a sh1t about our three ocean coastline, apparently.

"... not my problem..." they say with a shrug. "Rich and powerful foreigners do it for us."

Add Chinese Underwater drone hunters to the 'list of options' for our Navy. Get the good ones where the operator is on 24/7 call in his 'basement'. Know anybody with too much time on their hands??
That and Patriot type of an air force and that kind of cut-back can puts lots of people on vacation to start doing some important stuff. Like having fun for a change.
 

Cannuck

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Looks like you're the only person yawning at this.

Hehehe...don't kid yourself. Trumpites are like the mouthy little shyte on the playground. Somebody just cuffed them in the ear. That wasn't supposed to happen. China is afraid of Trump in the same way the world fears the Brittish.
 

MHz

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Hehehe...don't kid yourself. Trumpites are like the mouthy little shyte on the playground. Somebody just cuffed them in the ear. That wasn't supposed to happen. China is afraid of Trump in the same way the world fears the Brittish.
You almost had me but the ending blew it big time, sorry.
 

petros

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The device, dubbed an "ocean glider", was used to test water salinity and temperature, officials say.
Hey flosshole, are you sure it wasn't a geophysical survey vessel looking for clathrates?
 

Bar Sinister

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China has the third most powerful navy, after the USA and Russia.

Taiwan, by the way, is #10.

http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/rich-countries/lets-sea-the-10-biggest-navies-in-the-world/

Canada isn't on this list but we're down around #40. There was a time, still within living memory, when our navy was #3 but Canadians don't give a sh1t about our three ocean coastline, apparently.

"... not my problem..." they say with a shrug. "Rich and powerful foreigners do it for us."

Actually the reduction of the size of the Canadian navy had little to do with lack of regard for Canada's coastline. It had to do with the ending of World War II and the fact that the hundreds of escort vessels that comprised most of Canada's navy were no longer needed.
 

Danbones

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like the US spy drone(s) the Iranians shot down in their sky
did they get returned?

obama askissing for the drone back is so limp