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US Ship Broke Laws: China

Impeccable may have been snooping on Chinese nuclear subs

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 10, 2009 1:11 PM CDT

(Newser) – Beijing said that a US Navy surveillance ship approached by several Chinese vessels this weekend was conducting illegal information-gathering, the Washington Post reports. The US had completely misrepresented the incident in its complaint, a Foreign Ministry rep. said, as the USS Impeccable was in a... Read full story »

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