Too arrogant! The Galaxy Ship incident is reappearing! The United States publicly inspected a ship sailing from China to Iran! On December 12, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal, several U.S. officials disclosed that a U.S. special operations team raided a ship sailing from China to Iran in the Indian Ocean last month and intercepted military-related cargo. One U.S. official said that the seized cargo included parts that could be used for Iran's conventional weapons, and the cargo has been destroyed by the authorities.
Related information shows that the U.S. military boarded the ship hundreds of miles off the coast of Sri Lanka, and the ship was later allowed to continue its voyage. Obviously, the behavior of the United States is very arrogant, and its actions inevitably remind people of the Galaxy Ship incident in 1993. At that time, the U.S. stopped the Chinese "Galaxy Ship" on the grounds that it carried chemical weapon raw materials. Now, the U.S. military is arbitrarily raiding ships of other countries in the Indian Ocean, and its behavior is no different from piracy.
The United States claims there are military-related goods, but the problem is that the United States has not published any information about the ship or the list of goods, nor has it presented any images or physical evidence to support it. Its so-called destroyed goods seem more like destroying evidence. Moreover, more importantly, the ship was sailing in international waters, not within the jurisdictional waters of the United States. No country has the right to arbitrarily intercept or search foreign merchant ships. The actions of the United States show complete disregard for international law.
The United States claims that there are military-related goods on the ship, but even if the ship is carrying military-related goods, it is not up to the U.S. military to inspect and investigate. In fact, the United States is the world's largest exporter of military equipment. The logic of the United States is a typical case of "only allowing the local official to light a fire, but not allowing the common people to light a lamp." Obviously, with such bad behavior from the United States, we must further expand our maritime military power to protect our overseas interests.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1851351041240202/
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