Chinese tests new President, echoing 2001

This is so weird as it so closely parallels the occurrence in the early Bush administration when the Chinese effectively forced down a US electronic surveillance (spy) plane right on the edge of their sovereign space. Remember?

Well, they didn't seize this ship, but the "back off" signal is identical to the one they tried to send to an early Bush administration.

A senior defense official confirms that five Chinese ships "aggressively maneuvered" and shadowed a U.S. Navy surveillance ship yesterday.

The Chinese vessels moved into "dangerous proximity" to the USNS Impeccable, "in an apparent coordinated effort to harass the U.S. ocean surveillance ship," which was operating on a routine mission in international waters, the senior defense official says.

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