{"id":16148,"date":"2025-10-03T00:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/?p=16148"},"modified":"2025-10-03T00:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:10:39","slug":"this-morning-china-challenged-the-us-navy-in-the-south-china-sea-and-learned-a-brutal-lesson-fullvideobelow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/?p=16148","title":{"rendered":"THIS MORNING: China Challenged the US Navy in the South China Sea\u2014And Learned a Brutal Lesson ..FullvideoBelow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 14th, 2025. The USS Princeton, a steel titan of American resolve, sliced through the South China Sea under a sky so blue it hurt your eyes. At 0923 hours, her SPY radar painted a blip on the horizon\u2014an old foe, a Chinese Type 052D destroyer, Jon Chong, lurking at 200 kilometers. Suddenly, the Chinese ship surged from 18 to 30 knots. It wasn\u2019t a routine patrol anymore. It was a high-stakes chess match.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<p>Unknown to the Americans, Jon Chong\u2019s captain had just received a message from Beijing: \u201cIntercept the Americans. Make them blink first.\u201d But Beijing was about to discover why poking the US Navy in open water is the diplomatic equivalent of juggling live grenades.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\">\n<div id=\"thenewzpost.com_responsive_2\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23293390090\/thenewzpost.com\/thenewzpost.com_responsive_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>At 0926, the Princeton\u2019s radar operators confirmed the threat. Inside the Combat Information Center, the tactical action officer watched the Chinese destroyer\u2019s vector with the calm of a man who knows he\u2019s holding 122 vertical launch cells\u2014enough firepower to turn any Chinese ship into a cautionary tale.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\">\n<div id=\"thenewzpost.com_responsive_3\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23293390090\/thenewzpost.com\/thenewzpost.com_responsive_3_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Chinese destroyer was closing fast. Her YJ-18 anti-ship missiles could reach the Princeton in under four minutes once launched. But the Princeton\u2019s SM-6s could reach out even further and swat them out of the sky. It was a deadly dance\u2014one misstep, and the South China Sea would turn red.\u00a0<strong>Read more below<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 14th, 2025. The USS Princeton, a steel titan of American resolve, sliced through the South China Sea under a sky so blue it hurt your eyes. At 0923 hours, her SPY radar painted a blip on the horizon\u2014an old foe, a Chinese Type 052D destroyer, Jon Chong, lurking at 200 kilometers. Suddenly, the Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/552638274_1339784867505384_5298067387466191389_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16150,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16148\/revisions\/16150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}