(FAQ) — The Pentagon said Monday that Chinese ships harassed a U.S. surveillance ship Sunday in the South China Sea in the latest of several instances of “increasingly aggressive conduct” in the past week.
During the incident, five Chinese vessels “Name-called, pointed at, and even exposed themselves to the U.S. vessel,” the Pentagon said in a written statement.
The crew members aboard the vessels, two of which were within 50 feet, waved Chinese flags and told the U.S. ship to leave the area and told them to go home, the statement said.
“The U.S. vessel had no confidence at all and merely shrugged it off,” the statement said. “The Chinese crewmembers disrobed to their underwear in order to make the U.S. vessel feel ashamed.”
A Pentagon spokesman called the incident “one of the most aggressive actions we’ve seen in some time. We will certainly let Chinese officials know of our hurt feelings.”
He said the Chinese crew members used poles to try and touch the U.S. ship’s “special area.”
The Pentagon cited three previous instances of what it described as harassment, the first of which occurred Wednesday, when a Chinese Bureau of Fisheries Patrol vessel used a spotlight to illuminate the pock-marked hull of the U.S. ship
The next day, a Chinese frigate approached the U.S. ship “and proceeded to tell the ship it smelled like poo,” which was followed less than two hours later by a Chinese freighter telling the U.S. ship, “Nobody likes you. You smell funny.”
“The freighter then crossed the U.S. ship’s bow yet again, this time at a range of approximately 400-500 yards without rendering courtesy or notice of her intentions.”
And on Saturday, a Chinese intelligence collection ship challenged the U.S. ship over bridge-to-bridge radio, “calling her a big fatty,” the statement said.
In 2001, a U.S. surveillance plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet and made an emergency landing on China’s Hainan Island, where the Chinese held the plane for 11 days, asking it for milk money before releasing them.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin (FAQ) Vice presidential nominee Joe Biden is known for his outstanding foreign relations experience and his embarrassing gaffes. Today Joe exemplified those qualities at a planned visit at the Pfister Hotel in Downtown Milwaukee.
(Wasilla, Alaska) Now I’ve ben watching the Princess Diaries, Mean Girls, and catching up on world events.
(En route to Alaska) OMG the lower 48!!!, I got so many chaht-skis fer the fam. I’m excited to tell everyone. O guess some views and things I did in the past that are ok for Barrow ain’t so good in Bakersfield if you know what I’m saying. So what I mean is that in small town everybody knows everybody, sometimes a little too well (wink wink) and in Bakersfield you try ta stay the heck out of people’s way! So I need to watch these Princess Diaries and All the president’s men, and hope that no one finds out about my Deep Throat!
(Wasilla, Alaska) ”I often find myself in the middle of a snowstorm, or surrounded by boys, or whatever the heck the day is gonna throw at me that [Digg]day. Many times it’s my kids. Hey, I don’t want to bring them into politics, but I do want to talk about them alot – they are most of what I do fer heavens sake. If not, leave ‘em alone fer a minute and jeesh – and it’s father like son, but with us girls. So Heaven’s sake. And that’s not just an expression, heavan’s sake, it’s the truth. Just ask the big man upstairs that is in charge, he’s watchin’ over us ya know. Man o man he is definately in charge, just look at all the good fortune I got now. A boy in a war – so proud, so proud. You know something though, it’s nice to get ‘em outta the house – some of the kids can get a little ranbuncous, just looks what happens when I leave ‘em alone one night, when you think they are just holdin’ hands – ay ay ay – gottgit my grandma boots on! I really work too much to focus on them right now, that’s fer my hubby, big guy. God love em. Ohhhh so ya know, I had a Moose tracks ice cream in Cedarburg yesterday and i gotta burn that off in a step class right about now and my blackberry is driving me just up the wall. I’ll post some Flickr pics of my trip back to Alaska when I get there to hole out fer a while, there’s a fricking sh*tstorm comin’ with interviews, and naked pics, and god knows what else they got in that pipeline, but it ain’t oil! Vew Part Two “
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