they are undeterred and it keeps getting closer and closes to within 25 feet. what happened then is that the impeccable decided finally that they actually would leave. and you would think that that would be the point where the confrontation de-escalated, but at that point it actually got worse. because as the impeccable turned to leave, these chinese vessels, even though they had been telling this american ship it had to get out of there, once it started to try to get out of there, they threw junk into the sea, a bunch of pieces of wood and other debris into the ocean right in front of the impeccable which almost caused to crash. this is big enough stuff that it could have conceivably damaged the ship, sunk the ship. they had to do emergency stops and take emergency maneuvers to avoid this junk that the chinese ships had offloaded into the water. ultimately as the impeccable was pulling away from the confrontation, the chinese
at the same time that this has all gone down, late last night, china also announced and released footage from its one and only aircraft carrier conducting its first ever live fire, live ammunition real missile exercises. china only has one aircraft carrier, although they re working on more. they fly these j-15 fighters off the deck of it. last time they announced for the first time and released footage showing they have done live fire real ammunition exercises that show the ship itself using real missiles to destroy targets at sea and display its offensive capability. they ve never done that before with their aircraft carrier, but they announced it last night. so they ve just done it for the first time and they made sure to send out the footage. that comes at the same time that we also just got brand-new imagery of china having erected big, new anti-aircraft guns on the man-made islands that they just constructed in the south china sea. when the president of china was
five ships and the fire hoses and the trying to steal the sonar array. and then back home in washington we ve got this brand-new president. heck of a test for a new president, right? he s been in office all of what, six weeks at this point? and what the new president decides after this incredible confrontation, what he decided to do was to send the impeccable back. the impeccable had left, right? under these very difficult circumstances. the new president decided to send the impeccable back to the place where that confrontation happened but this time he sent the impeccable with a friend. president obama ordered that the impeccable should this time have an escort. and it should be a 500-foot-long guided missile destroyer, which it goes without saying, is not an unarmed ship. and that in march 2009, that s how china welcomed barack obama to the white house. welcome, mr. president. hope you enjoy your time.
and only aircraft carrier conducting its first ever live fire, live ammunition real missile exercises. china only has one aircraft carrier, although they re working on more. they fly these j-15 fighters off the deck of it. last time they announced for the first time and released footage showing they have done live fire real ammunition exercises that show the ship itself using real missiles to destroy targets at sea and display its offensive capability. they ve never done that before with their aircraft carrier, but they announced it last night. so they ve just done it for the first time and they made sure to send out the footage. that comes at the same time that we also just got brand-new imagery of china having erected big, new anti-aircraft guns on the man-made islands that they just constructed in the south china sea. when the president of china was at the white house in september, he stood there next to president obama at a joint press
pulling away from the confrontation, the chinese sailors grabbed like do you see like a straight line off the ship there off our right, the left side of the ship there underneath that guy? chinese sailors grabbed they were like poles or maybe grappling hooks or gaffes. there s some conflicting reports about what they were using, but these long tools off the deck on one of these boats to try to grab on to the impeccable s tail. they used these grappling hooks or whatever it was they had to try to grab the sonar array out of the water that the impeccable was towing. they tried to grab the thing out of the water and steal it. now, luckily the sonar array is a big mama jammer and did a good job of getting away from this, but the chinese didn t end up with the sonar array, but still, that whole confrontation was nuts. and remember, this went on over a period of days. this was like a five-day