The Obama administration called on China Wednesday to rein in North Korea after its artillery attack on a South Korean island, as the Pentagon ordered the USS George Washington aircraft carrier, carrying 75 warplanes and a crew of over 6,000, along with it's strike group to the Yellow Sea for naval exercises with South Korean forces.
Chinese Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu told staterun media in July that "if the United States truly wants to take into account the overall interests of the Sino-U.S. relationship, then it must on no account send its USS Washington to the Yellow Sea." He called the area "sensitive."
The Pentagon rejected the Chinese criticism and said Navy ships, including carriers, will transit the Yellow Sea because it is in international waters.
(The joint military exercises currently being held by the U.S and South Korea are the catalyst for this military skirmish.It goes without saying that the US is in charge of these exercises. Any escalation from the war game to live fire MUST be blamed on the military that has the greatest power to stop it...The United States. PERIOD!)
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