China Blocks US Navy Ships From Visiting Hong Kong

USS Green Bay

The Chinese government has denied two U.S. Navy vessels entry to Hong Kong for scheduled port calls as protests continue in that city, reports Stars and Stripes.


The amphibious dock ship USS Green Bay intended to make a visit this past Saturday and the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie planned to stop there later in September, Cmdr. Nate Christensen, deputy spokesman for U.S. Pacific Fleet, told Stars and Stripes in an email.

You really can't blame the Chinese after a high-level US official in Hong Kong was photographed with leaders of Hong Kong protest groups.

And U.S. warships shouldn't be in that part of the world anyway.

 -RW