DefenceTalkChina has denied the US aircraft carrier USS Stennis and accompanying naval vessels permission to make a port call in Hong Kong, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday. It was not immediately known what prompted the Chinese action, but it comes amid growing tension between the two countries over Beijing’s moves to assert its claims to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-rejects-hong-kong-port-call-by-us-aircraft-carrier-pentagon-67376/