China Blocks USS Kitty Hawk Carrier From Hong Kong

No Reason Given For Wrecking Holiday Reunion
Nov. 22, 2007


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HONG KONG -- China blocked a long-planned Thanksgiving visit to Hong Kong by a U.S. aircraft carrier group, ruining the holiday reunion for 8,000 airmen and sailors and hundreds of their families who had flown to Hong Kong to see them.

Hours after the Kitty Hawk and its support ships were turned away, China changed its mind and said the ships could anchor at Hong Kong. But it was too late and the ships would continue on to its home port in Japan, the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hawaii told Reuters.

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