LOS ANGELES — What's eating the People's Liberation Army?
In the last few weeks, China's top PLA generals have been acting like a bunch of old guys with inactive social lives. They've been grumpy, pouting, defying and downright cranky.
In Hong Kong, the generals have been acting like an over-the-top King Kong — and no one has been firing bullets at them! Consider: A U.S. aircraft carrier was steaming toward that gorgeous harbor, where thousands of relatives, friends and well-wishers were waiting to greet the sailors for a Thanksgiving Day holiday retreat — and at the last minute the previously waved-in U.S. ship was denied a berth.