U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen wave as they board Air Force Two at Yokota Air Base in Fussa, on the outskirts of Tokyo, on Tuesday. | REUTERS
Business Insider: 'We are here to stay' — Pence says he personally challenged China with a South China Sea flyby
* The vice president flew through the South China Sea Tuesday, reportedly to send a message to the Chinese.
* He described his flyby as something of a "freedom-of-navigation" operation, The Washington Post reported.
* Speaking earlier in Tokyo, he stressed that "authoritarianism and aggression have no place in the Indo-Pacific."
Vice President Mike Pence is traveling through Asia with a message for China, and that is that the US "will not be intimidated."
Flying from Japan to Singapore Tuesday, the vice president's Air Force 2 airplane reportedly passed within 50 miles of Chinese outposts in the contested Spratly Islands. Speaking with The Washington Post's Josh Rogin, Pence characterized the flight as something of a "freedom-of-navigation" operation.
As Pence's aircraft was actually a good distance from the islands, his flyby in the South China Sea obviously did not serve as an official FONOP or even as a particularly-demonstrative overflight, like the flights occasionally conducted by US Air Force bombers.
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Update #1: Freedom of navigation? Defiant U.S. Vice President Mike Pence flies over disputed South China Sea (Japan Times)
Update #2: ‘Freedom Of Navigation’: VP Pence Flies Over Disputed South China Sea In Message To Beijing (Task & Purpose)
WNU Editor: Not impressed. He was far away from any of the islands that China is claiming.
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Trump would have flown right over an islands, parachuted out despite lefty doctors warnings, and then sold them the space as "very good, prime location" :)
Remember how they tried to sell us Hillary as healthy? And how did that work out when she almost collapsed in front of camera and had to be helped by secret service? Trump has such good genes, he would help his bodyguards :D
“If you buy a box of cereal — you have a voter ID"
Humility is a good Christian virtue
Those, who want (demand) Christians to be humble, look good with mud (or worse) on their face.
You need voter ID in Europe.
You need ID in America for everything but voting.
The Left wants to keep it that way. It is the only way those knuckle dragging dimwits have any chance in elections.
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