Don’t let your aircraft carriers to visit China: McCain to Pentagon

As the Pentagon consider whether to permit a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier to make a significant port visit to China. The Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the new chairman of the SASC, urged the DD to scuttle the proposal in a letter dated Monday to Chuck Hagel and Robert Work. Calling the Navy’s Nimitz-class carriers that one of the most sophisticated and lethal military tools in world history, so McCain said it would be a political and symbolic mistake for the Navy to accept a Chinese invitation for one of its gigantic flattop vessels to swing by for a visit. Sending such a stage to China would be seen as an international display of respect to China and it’s Navy, although Beijing’s recent record of ruthless behavior in the East and South China Seas.