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2020-07-30 Caribbean-Latin America

Ecuador navy 'on alert' as 260-strong Chinese fleet nears Galapagos Islands

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 Followup from yesterday's China Food Crisis
and tomorrow's China eats endangered turtles

Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-30 00:33|| 2020-07-30 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Saw an article that called out a similar fleet currently close to the Farallon Islands just off San Francisco.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-07-30 01:00|| 2020-07-30 01:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Sink them, starve China.

Posted by H-T-A 2020-07-30 05:28|| 2020-07-30 05:28|| Front Page Top

Hungry? Grow some more of these and eat'em.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-30 06:44|| 2020-07-30 06:44|| Front Page Top

#5 They probably need to reflag them in Nigeria or Panama. The American whaling fleet disappeared during our last civil war as Confederate raiders* drove them to reflag as British. The Chinese are a bit vulnerable in this case to any incident(s) they may provoke in the Western Pacific.

* flagged for the South, but manned largely by sailors of other nationalities.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-07-30 07:18|| 2020-07-30 07:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Time for mines?

Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-07-30 11:11|| 2020-07-30 11:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Ecuadorian Navy

Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-30 12:32|| 2020-07-30 12:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Equadorian Navy.
Both of them?

Posted by ed in texas 2020-07-30 17:50|| 2020-07-30 17:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Assuming these are fishing vessels and not "fishing vessels", a few of those Esmereldas could change some headings.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-07-30 18:39|| 2020-07-30 18:39|| Front Page Top

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