China angrier now than before but we must welcome US moves

THAT the People’s Republic China refused, on Friday, to allow the US Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John Stennis to make a Hong Kong port call is a signal that our neighbor to the north with about one-fourth of the entire population of our planet is angrier than it was before with the United States – and perhaps the Philippines too – for its recent actions in the South China (West Philippine) Sea and its words about supporting our country against Chinese bullying.

A Pentagon spokesman, according to an Agence France-Presse report written in Washington, DC, said China has denied the US aircraft carrier USS Stennis and accompanying naval vessels permission to make a port call in Hong Kong.