China's Foreign Ministry Thursday offered no explanation as to why Chinese authorities initially refused and then allowed a Thanksgiving holiday visit to Hong Kong by the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier group.The boats carrying 8,000 sailors to Hong Kong for... ...full story at China Confidential
from China Confidential on Thu, Nov 22 2007
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