jhungary
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According to your logic, are you saying it's okay if I stand on a pavement peeping right into your house and then say, I am on public property and have every right to do what I want?
Technically speaking, if you keep moving along on the sidewalk and does not stop, you does not break any law by walking and peeping inside a house on a public sidewalk. There is a reason why a public sidewalk is spaced so far from your front yard and your house, that is people are allowed to walk around do whatever they want while you maintain your maximum privacy, if that's still a problem for your privacy, try grow some tree in your front yard.
However, if you stop and peep, then you are loitering, and that's illegal.
As you said yourself, it take quite distance for a ship to stop. It is not like the PLAN LST magically appeared and stopped right in front of it, the US ship knows where the LST was heading and did not change course or take any action until the LST stopped in front of it. This game of Chicken has been played for a long time between USN and USSR's, mainly with submarines, and don't tell me there was no serious incident either. Here I am not saying that USN did anythng wrong, but so did PLAN. You can blame someone being rude when you are spying someone's property right in front someone else's door steps with let's call it an unfriendly intention.
lol, you ever heard of "Constant Bearing, Decrease Range (CBDR)"?
In naval and martime term, any ship that's follow its constant bearing HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY. In this senario, the US Ship does not change course nor decrease speed, they have the right of way to proceed. Any ship that intented to incept the constant bearing ship course must wait until the Signal from the constant bearing ship to pass before intercepting course.
In this case, the Chinese LST Break formation and head toward the US Ship, US ship have not alter their original course and in this case, the Chinese ship should have stopped and wait for the ship to pass and then merge course.
This is a common seamanship that seaman in the world uses to prevent collision, unless you are saying Chinese Sailor are excepted from this international seamanship and the seamancraft does not apply to Chinese Sailor.