The government of China, organizer of the 2008 "Genocide" Olympics, coddler of Sudan, and friend to oppressive regimes everywhere, today administered a childish slap to the U.S. Navy.
The USS Kitty Hawk, an aircraft carrier, and her strike group were scheduled to dock in Hong Kong for Thanksgiving. In preparation, Americans living in Hong Kong were busy setting up Thanksgiving dinners for some sailers, and relatives of some sailers had flown to Hong Kong to spend the holiday with them.
Because the British (stupidly) gave Hong Kong back to China, China must give permission for the U.S. Navy to dock. China denied the Kitty Hawk strike group entry this Thanksgiving, ruining the plans of numerous sailers and their families.
Thank you, China, for your Thanksgiving present. I will give you a small gift in return: I will boycott your goods every chance I get. I will not visit your country. If my employer asks me to go to your country for business, I will refuse. And I will remind everyone I meet about your bad manners, and your support for genocide in Darfur.
2 comments:
That was obviously a power play stunt by the Chinese officials. The sad thing was that the Kitty Hawk had to go back out to sea and the service men and their waiting families did not get to see each other.
Headlight Cleaner
"Because the British (stupidly) gave Hong Kong back to China"
The lease expired. It's that simple. The New Territories were acquired under a 99 year lease which expired in 1997. The original Hong Kong, which was acquired in perpetuity after the Opium War, was by this time inseparable from the New Territories.
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