On May 22, 2015 according to a dispatch by the WSJ, “The U.S. Navy flew a P-8  Poseidon surveillance plane this week over the South China Sea’s Spratly Islands, where Beijing is building military bases atop reefs and rocks claimed by several of its neighbors. A CNN team invited along for the mission reported that China’s military repeatedly tried to order the U.S. plane away. “This is the Chinese navy,” it radioed in English. “Please go away . . . to avoid misunderstanding.”

The U.S. crew responded each time that it was flying through international airspace.By flying over the Spratlys, the U.S. provided its most forceful rejection to date of Beijing’s claim to sovereignty over an area that lies more than 600 miles from China’s coast. It also signaled that Washington would defend the freedom of the seas and the maritime rights of its partners… Chinese dredgers have nearly doubled the total landmass of the Spratlys—creating more than 2,000 new acres, or some 1,500 football fields—in an attempt to extend Chinese military reach and its political claims. The longer the U.S. fails to contest Beijing’s South China Sea claims, the more aggressive China will become in asserting those claims—and perhaps the more willing it will be to fight for them. The time to resist Beijing’s maritime pretensions is now.”

Is the U.S. Navy Command that welcomed he People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) in 2014, completely “out of step” with the reality of a communist state that seeks domination of Asia?

The White House and the DoD invited the Chinese’ Navy to participate in the RIMPAC 2014. In July 2014 CNO Admiral Jonathan Greenert and PLAN commander in Chief Admiral Wu Shengli toured a Type -388 submarine and a Type-22 Houbei missile boat at Lushun Naval Base. The U.S. Navy allowed Chinese sailors aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal (CG-73). USS Port Royal (CG-73) is a United States Navy Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser. In December 2014, the Chinese sailors were again allowed on board the guided missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG-104). USS STERETT is one of the ARLEIGH BURKE Flight IIA guided missile destroyers. Many find the willingness of the U.S. Navy to provide accommodations to a potential future naval foe troubling. U.S. critics complain that the new accommodation model suggests a deference to China’s self-core interest that run counter to former US and ally relationships with China. When the P-8 approached the Spartly Island in International waters, the Chinese navy repeatedly warned the U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon plane to leave airspace around disputed islands in the South China Sea. "Foreign military aircraft, this is Chinese navy. You are approaching our military alert zone. Leave immediately," a Chinese naval officer warned the U.S. plane. The dragon appears to have frightened the most powerful navy in the world.