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| Open Day for Bulgarians held at Chinese frigate "Yantai" |
| 2012-08-09 |
| An Open Day for Bulgarians was held on Tuesday at the Chinese frigate Yantai, which arrived at the Black Sea port of Varna to make a five-day goodwill visit. Black Sea, eh? The Turks let it through the Straits of Bosporous? More than 1,000 people climbed aboard the first Chinese navy ship visiting Bulgaria. "We came here mainly because China is a friendly country for us, Chinese people are our brotherly nation, and we came to look at the ship, which came to visit in Varna for the first time," a visitor told Xinhua. And then the imaginary visitor's imaginary lips fell off. Come on, ordinary people talk like that all the time. I read quotes like that in Pravda on a daily basis... Another visitor, Ivan Lambov, a former master mariner, said that he very much enjoyed the frigate and the organization onboard. "This ship is strong, and probably it has been tested in combat conditions," Lambov said. Nope! He said he understood from media reports that Yantai has performed duties in anti-piracy areas. "To be in anti-piracy areas and on duty, you have to be in form because modern pirates are not what they once were: it is no joke to fight against pirates," Lambov said. They run at the first whiff of grapeshot. They attack the defenseless, not armed ships. Unless they screw up. And there are no pirates in the Black Sea... Meanwhile, Senior Captain Li Hua, Yantai frigate Commander, told reporters the ship was launched in 2010 and was commissioned in 2011. He said this is the newest Chinese navy ship, equipped with the most advanced Chinese technology. Hopefully we got some spies onboard, but with CIA these days, I doubt it. |
| Posted by:gromky |
| #1 "An Open Day for Bulgarians was held on Tuesday ..." Bulgarians? Are you kidding? So - are they struggling with despondency over a lack of medals in the Olympics?? What exactly did the Chinese do - give them tea and twinkies?? Hahahahaha!!! |
| Posted by: Raider 2012-08-09 10:28 |