{"id":8428,"date":"2025-09-07T00:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realvoicestudio.com\/?p=8428"},"modified":"2025-09-07T00:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:56:29","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:\/\/realvoicestudio.com\/?p=8428","title":{"rendered":"THIS MORNING: China Challenged the US Navy in the South China Sea\u2014And Learned a Brutal Lesson ..FullvideoBelow"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"entry-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"540468236_765558412937954_2023596140632425678_n\" src=\"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/540468236_765558412937954_2023596140632425678_n-526x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<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<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<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<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.<\/p>\n","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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/realvoicestudio.com\/?p=8428\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;THIS MORNING: China Challenged the US Navy in the South China Sea\u2014And Learned a Brutal Lesson ..FullvideoBelow&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realvoicestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realvoicestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realvoicestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realvoicestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realvoicestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/realvoicestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8430,"href":"https:\/\/realvoicestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions\/8430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realvoicestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realvoicestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realvoicestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realvoicestudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}