Chinese Admiral Says U.S. to Pay ‘Costly Price’ for Sea Drills
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A U.S. decision to use a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in joint naval drills with South Korea in the Yellow Sea would be “a fresh provocation” to China and its surrounding region, Rear Admiral Yang Yi wrote in a commentary published in today’s China Daily newspaper.
The U.S. will “pay a costly price’ for its “muddled decision,” and its adherence to the “Cold War mentality” will lead to bigger strategic setbacks, wrote Yang, a former director of the Institute for Strategic Studies at the People’s Liberation Army National Defense University.