{"id":1827191,"date":"2023-01-28T10:05:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T15:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1827191"},"modified":"2023-01-28T10:11:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T15:11:17","slug":"u-s-demonstrates-its-military-might-in-chinas-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-demonstrates-its-military-might-in-chinas-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Demonstrates Its Military Might in China\u2019s Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-demonstrates-its-military-might-in-chinas-backyard%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1827191&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/yahoo_default_logo-1200x1200-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Joseph Campbell<\/p>\n<p>ABOARD THE NIMITZ (South China Sea) &#8211; In a display of U.S. military strength in the most contested areas of the globe, dozens of combat aircraft and helicopters roared on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Nimitz for a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>MH-60 Seahawk helicopters, and F\/A-18 Hornet aircrafts bearing pilot call signs such as &#8220;Fozzie Bear&#8221;, &#8220;Pig Sweat&#8221;  &#8220;Bongoo&#8221; As they land in the drizzle, the Nimitz emits deafening screams. It is leading a carrier-strike group that entered South China Sea just two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Rear Admiral Christopher Sweeney was the commander of the group and said the tour was part a U.S. pledge to preserve freedom of passage within the waters or airspace of a vital region to global trade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to sail, fly and operate wherever international norms and rules allow. We&#8217;re going to do that safely and we&#8217;re going to be resolute about that,&#8221; Sweeney shared his views with Reuters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really just about sailing and operating obviously with our allies and partners in the area and assuring them of free and open commerce and trade in the Indo-Pacific.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While allies such as Australia, Japan, South Korea, South Korea, and the Philippines have welcomed the U.S. presence on the South China Sea (which is responsible for $3.4 trillion annually in trade), it continues to anger China, which regards the actions as provocations.<\/p>\n<p>China claims historical jurisdiction over the whole South China Sea, including the exclusive economic zones of Vietnam and Brunei.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing conducts regular exercises, and keeps a large number of fishing and coast guard vessels far away from its mainland. This has created tensions with its neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group 11 also includes Bunker Hill, the guided missile cruiser and guided-missile destroyers Wayne E. Meyer, Chung-Hoon and Decatur. Chung-Hoon, irking China, sailed through Taiwan Strait on Jan. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks earlier, a Chinese navy J-11 fighter aircraft caused alarm by coming within 10 feet (3 meters) of an American Air Force plane in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney stressed the importance of international rules being followed, and stated that the U.S. presence on the South China Sea was a demonstration of its commitment to regional allies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve operated in the same body of water as the Chinese or the Singaporean navy or the Filipino navy since we&#8217;ve arrived and it&#8217;s all been safe and professional,&#8221; He said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to sail, fly and operate wherever international waters allow us to, so we&#8217;re not going anywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting and Writing by Joseph Campbell; Writing and Editing by Martin Petty; Editing done by Jonathan Oatis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Campbell ABOARD THE NIMITZ (South China Sea) &#8211; In a display of U.S. military strength in the most contested areas of the globe, dozens of combat aircraft and helicopters roared on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Nimitz for a few hours. MH-60 Seahawk helicopters, and F\/A-18 Hornet aircrafts bearing pilot call signs &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1330603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[16652,5909,15826,4505,7238],"class_list":["post-1827191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-backyard","tag-chinas","tag-demonstrates","tag-military","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1330603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}