In Dramatic Escalation, China Sends Five Navy Ships Off Alaska Coast For First Time Ever

Just as China celebrates the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II with an extravagant parade designed to showcase the country’s military prowess and project Xi Jinping’s power to nervous onlookers in the West, the Pentagon says it has spotted five Chinese Navy ships in the Bering Sea, just off the coast of Alaska.
Here’s WSJ:

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 09/02/2015.