by Xinhua writer Zhu Junqing
BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- With the USS Carl Vinson battle group heading toward the Western Pacific, the United States is completing its deployment of three carriers to Asia, putting on another muscle show and making waves again in the South China Sea.
According to foreign media reports, the U.S. Navy is deploying a third Nimitz-class supercarrier in Asia to add to the fleet of two carriers already patrolling the South China Sea, aiming at boosting its naval air forces in this part of Asia.
Facts again show that it is the United States along with its regional allies that have never stopped stirring up trouble in peaceful waters and militarizing the South China Sea.
Over the past decades, certain countries in the region, under the U.S. double standard, have continuously been deploying heavy weapons on illegally occupied islands and reefs that actually belong to China.
The United States, self-proclaimed world police, itself has developed a habit of putting on a military show of force on China's doorstep. Even though the region is thousands of miles away from its soil, U.S. warplanes and warships have been patrolling dangerously close to Chinese territory.
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