USNS Impeccable Assault on the High Seas!

Piracy off Somalia is one thing, interference from Chinese government ship on the high seas is another.

Will the Obama Administration get is first international challenge from China?

It appears so. Numerous reports indicate a series of hostile actions taken against a US Naval Ship the USNS Impeccable.

Five Chinese vessels in a possibly coordinated effort yesterday “shadowed and aggressively maneuvered in dangerously close proximity” to a U.S. Navy ocean surveillance ship as it conducted routine operations in international waters, the Pentagon said today, according to Bloomberg news.

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