The Galaxy incident occurred in the early 1990s. China's national strength was still weak at that time. Under the guidance of the strategic idea of ​​military construction to give way to economic development, China's navy had not purchased a new ship for decades, and most of the ships in use were dilapidated. Not to mention protecting its own ocean fleet, it was difficult to effectively protect the 12 nautical miles of territorial waters. It was precisely because of this that China was greatly humiliated at that time.

Galaxy is a full container cargo ship belonging to the Yuehai Ocean Shipping Company of China Ocean Shipping Corporation. On July 7, 1993, the ship set sail at the North New Port as planned, passing through the East, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Jakarta. Finally, it carried a total of 628 containers and sailed to the Middle East. It is expected to arrive at Dubai Port in the Persian Gulf on August 3 to unload the goods, and then go to the Daman Port of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait Port.

However, the United States made bad waves out of nothing. Starting from July 23, on the grounds of obtaining information, the Galaxy cargo ship was loaded with raw materials for chemical weapons such as sulfodiglyl and thionyl chloride, and was sailing to the Port of Abbas in Iran. U.S. officials also made a sensation that the U.S. government asked the Chinese government to take immediate measures to stop this export behavior and threaten China nakedly. If it does not cooperate, it will impose sanctions on China.

On August 3, during another negotiation with the Chinese Foreign Ministry, the United States actually asked the Chinese government to order the Galaxy ship to return to its departure point, or the Americans boarded the ship to check the cargo, and finally proposed to let the Galaxy stay at a certain location and wait for the departure. Not only that, the United States also spread its wrong information to the countries where the freighter was planning to dock, and accordingly asked these countries to prevent the freighter from entering and unloading as planned.

Huaxia strongly protested against the US's many unreasonable accusations and domineering behaviors. In order to prevent the situation from deteriorating, and to the fact that it is really incapable of protecting the Galaxy on the coast, Huaxia was forced to instruct the Galaxy to suspend its advance on August 3 and break down on the high seas more than 10 nautical miles away from the Strait of Hormuz.

After careful investigation of the US's doubts and comprehensive investigation, China clearly told the US on August 4 that the Galaxy cargo ship was not loaded with the two chemicals mentioned by the US, and put forward positive suggestions to solve the problem, including the local customs and Chinese side to verify the Galaxy cargo container suspected by the US at the first stop in the Middle East, Dubai Port, the first stop in the Middle East.

On August 7, the head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry delivered a speech solemnly pointed out that the US claims that the departure date of the China Galaxy Galaxy is the beginning port and the arrival port are completely inaccurate. The so-called cargo ship carrying chemical weapons precursors is purely a rumor, and strongly protests the US's domineering behavior of ignoring China's clarification. However, until August 12, a senior US official also claimed that we have reliable intelligence to prove that the ship carries chemical weapons precursors, and we are determined to inspect the ship. The US's false accusations, accusations and threats are like a nightmare for the Galaxy. After entering the Indian Ocean, the Galaxy crew found a US ** ship closely behind. At first they thought the warship was sailing with them, but the 54-year-old captain Zhang Rude, with years of experience as a captain and sailing experience, vaguely felt that the situation was abnormal.

At 8 a.m. on August 3, after the Galaxy arrived in the Gulf of Oman, a US helicopter was hovering over the Galaxy Ship to track it, asking about the Galaxy Ship name, course, speed, cargo status, departure port, destination port, etc. The US helicopter cabin door was open, and the Galaxy Ship was photographed from time to time.

At 12:30 noon that day, the US warship No. 61 approached the Galaxy and followed it. At 19:30 that day, the Galaxy freighter broke down and stood on standby at the Gulf of Oman about 11 nautical miles from the Strait of Hormuz as instructed by the company. During this period, the US ships No. 61, 975, and 996 drove around two to five nautical miles in front, back and left and right of the Galaxy, causing layers of evil waves. US fighter jets, helicopters, and reconnaissance aircraft kept hovering at low altitudes around it, rolling up strong winds, as if they were to swallow the entire Galaxy wheel, and the Persian Gulf in midsummer and scoring heat.

The temperature in the sun is as high as more than 50 degrees Celsius. The hull of the Galaxy drifting on the high seas is hot, and when you touch your hands on the deck or on the iron guardrail, it will burn water. The cabin looks like a big steamer. However, the crew members cannot take a bath and get sufficient nutritional supplies as usual. Because the Galaxy drifts on the high seas for a long time, the fresh water and food carried by the normal voyage begin to be short of. Captain Zhang Rude had to ask everyone to save water and reduce food. On the day of the breakdown, they began to lower the food standards, changing from the usual three dishes and one soup to two dishes and one soup, and the quantity was significantly reduced than usual.

In order to save water, some people didn't even take a bath for a week. People lost weight, their physical condition decreased, and their sickness increased. But they were not scared by everything in front of them. When the Americans called the captain from the warship and said that we can provide you with oil, water and food, Captain Zhang Rude flatly refused: We don't need it! The crew members said: In order to safeguard the dignity of the motherland, they would rather eat frugal than a drop of oil or water from the United States. After more than 10 days of anchoring outside the Strait of Hormuz, the Galaxy moved 38 nautical miles southwest after intergovernment negotiations and anchored on the high seas of Oman Sea about 50 nautical miles outside the Port of Fujairah in the northeast of the UAE. After many efforts, the Galaxy ship entered Daman Port, and the representatives of the Chinese government boarded the ship together with the Saudi government representative to inspect. The United States also sent experts as Saudi technical consultants to participate in the inspection.

On the morning of August 28, US and Saudi personnel, accompanied by Chinese personnel, counted and browsed the cargo on the ship. US technicians were wearing desert camouflage uniforms, unboxing tools, inspection instruments and flashlights, and were eager to try it out, and they were very likely to not give up until they found out the two types of chemicals claimed by the US Intelligence Agency. China repeatedly stated that the Galaxy did not carry the two types of chemicals claimed by the US, so they were naturally confident. As for the Saudi government, it adopted the minimum attitude of not offending each other, providing a place where the US should seize evidence and the Chinese should clarify the facts.

At 10:10 am on August 29, the unboxing inspection began. The cargo containers shipped to Iran were naturally the first to be hit. The first box was opened, and it was full of lead-sealed black iron barrels. The layman was really surprised when he saw it. The Americans present were surprised, the Saudis were surprised, and only the Chinese were calm.

American technicians were happy and thought carefully about these black iron barrels, thinking that these might be the two types of liquid chemicals they were looking for. When they were told that there were solid dyes inside, they didn't believe it, so they took out two boxes from the middle to open to see what was going on. They didn't let go of the shoe carton shipped to Iran, suspected that there were liquid chemicals inside.

On the morning of that day, the Americans opened 25 containers shipped from China to Iran. In the evening, they inspected the remaining boxes. By around 11 o'clock in the evening, all containers shipped from China (including transited through Hong Kong) had been unpacked and inspected. There were no chemicals called sulfodiglycol and thionyl chloride, which the United States claimed. After the United States did not find the two types of chemicals they were looking for in the cargo box ship to Iran, the next day, they proposed to check all the cargo boxes they suspected of boarding from the North New Port and the East Port. Faced with the aggressive attitude of the United States, the Chinese side had to agree to the US's request. However, the results of the inspection disappointed the Americans again, and there were no dangerous chemicals they mentioned on the ship.

The Americans were a little panicked at this time, so they suspected that the information they received was incorrect. According to them, the box numbers provided by the US intelligence agency were csaq3101 and csaq3102. When they found that the Galaxy cargo ship had no two cargo boxes and their bill of lading numbers at all, they suspected that the intelligence department had recorded the number incorrectly, so they proposed to check the similar and easy-to-mix container csaq3010.

But when I unboxed, I saw playing cards shipped to Pakistan. The stupid behavior of the Americans became a laughing stock for everyone on the scene. At around 11 o'clock in the evening, all 49 cargo boxes shipped from China and all the US suspected and thought they wanted to investigate were unboxed. As a result, the Americans still found nothing, so they bet on the 31-day test results.
Chapter completed!