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To: StanX Long who wrote (62382)	3/27/2002 4:40:08 AM
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"OT" but not good. China bars U.S. navy ship from Hong Kong Wednesday March 27, 12:36 AM sg.news.yahoo.com HONG KONG (Reuters) - China has denied permission for a U.S. navy destroyer to make a routine port call in Hong Kong as tensions grow over Washington's decision to allow Taiwan's defence minister to visit the United States. "The Chinese government denied a request for the USS Curtis Wilbur...to visit Hong Kong April 5 to 9. This would have been a routine port call," Barbara Zigli, a spokeswoman for the U.S. consulate in Hong Kong, told Reuters on Tuesday. "There was no reason given for the disapproval and I am not going to speculate about it," Zigli said. She said the consulate received the notification from the Chinese government on March 18. China side-stepped a question over the move on Tuesday, saying decisions on foreign port visits were made on a case-by-case basis. "We evaluate and approve all applications by foreign military aircraft or vessels to visit Hong Kong according to relevant regulations of the Basic Law, and moreover, we consider various factors on a case-by-case basis," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue told a news conference. Last week, Beijing said Chinese naval ships would skip U.S. ports during a foreign tour this year.