Chinese warship cuts off US Navy ship, marking 2nd military provocation in week

[Faust]

Chinese warship cuts off US Navy ship, marking 2nd military provocation in week

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/chin...ry?id=99817905

[btimbit]

Well they've been doing it with aircraft for years, was just a matter of time before they started doing it on water as well

[undercoverbrother]

Maybe they were just celebrating the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre

[PeteMoss]

At least they knew enough to stay away from the Canadian boat

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Maybe they were just celebrating the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre

What Tiananmen Square Massacre, nothing happened that day.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by PeteMoss

At least they knew enough to stay away from the Canadian boat

Its harder to ram a motor boat.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

What Tiananmen Square Massacre, nothing happened that day.

[TheIronMaiden]

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-48455582

In the weeks leading up to 4 June, the world's biggest censorship machine goes into overdrive as a huge dragnet of automated algorithms and tens of thousands of human expurgators cleanse the internet of any reference, however oblique.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-48455582

Oh I know, #### those #######s.

[TheIronMaiden]

This is becoming a total aside, but the story of how Charlie Cole took the tank man photos and was able to hide them when leaving China is fascinating.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

This is becoming a total aside, but the story of how Charlie Cole took the tank man photos and was able to hide them when leaving China is fascinating.

I don't recall that.

got a link, then I'll be done high jacking

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I don't recall that.

got a link, then I'll be done high jacking

I was just looking into it more, there is another photographer Jeff Widener who I may have listened to. Either way. It is palm sweating stuff.

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

I was just looking into it more, there is another photographer Jeff Widener who I may have listened to. Either way. It is palm sweating stuff.

I had drinks a few times with Kirk Martsen in Shanghai at a beer place we both liked and was blown away when he told me about his experiences helping Widener with getting his shots and getting his film canister to the AP. Story of a lifetime.

Edit: Found an old TIME article that shares about Kirk's role in getting the photos out.

Almost 25 years ago, Jeff Widener ran out of film during the most important assignment of his life.

The brutal crackdown at Tiananmen Square was underway and Widener, a photographer for the Associated Press, was sent to the square to capture the scene. “I rode a bicycle to the Beijing Hotel,” Widener says. “Upon my arrival, I had to get past several Chinese security police in the lobby. If they stopped and searched me, they would have found all my gear and film hidden in my clothes.” But there, in the shadows of the hotel entrance, he saw a long-haired college kid wearing a dirty Rambo t-shirt, shorts and sandals. “I yelled out, ‘Hi Joe! Where you been?’ and then whispered that I was from AP.” Widener remembers. He asked to go to the young man’s room. “He picked up on it,” says Widener, “and out of the corner of my eye I could see the approaching security men turn away, thinking I was a hotel guest.”

The young man was an American. His name was Kirk Martsen.

Martsen told Widener that he was lucky to arrive when he did. Just a few minutes earlier, some hotel guests had been shot by a passing military truck full of Chinese soldiers. Martsen said hotel staff members had dragged the bodies back in the hotel and that he had barely escaped with his life. From a hotel balcony, Widener was able to take pictures with a long lens—but then he ran out of film. So he sent Martsen on a desperate hunt for more, and Martsen returned with one single roll of Fuji color negative. It was on this film that Widener captured one of the most iconic images in history, the lone protester facing down a row of Chinese tanks.

“After I made the image, I asked Kirk if he could smuggle my film out of the hotel on his bicycle to the AP office at the Diplomatic Compound,” Widener says. “He agreed to do this for me as I had to stay in the hotel and wait for more supplies and could not risk being found out. I watched Kirk from my balcony, which was right over the area where the security was. In what seemed to be an eternity, Kirk unlocked his bike and started to pedal off, although a bit awkwardly because all my film was stashed in his underwear. Five hours later, a call to Mark Avery at the AP office in Beijing confirmed that the film had arrived and been transmitted world-wide. What I did not know until 20 years later was what actually transpired after Kirk pedaled the bicycle away.”

https://time.com/3788986/tiananmen/

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by PeteMoss

At least they knew enough to stay away from the Canadian boat

We'd probably just say we were sorry out of habit.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by Lubicon

We'd probably just say we were sorry out of habit.

More like they avoided us because they knew we're broke and tryna bum some cigarettes and gas.

[blankall]

Between this and the world's biggest nuclear power potentially on the verge of collapse, things aren't looking so hot right now.