Quote Originally Posted by Maeda Toshiie View Post
A thought just struck me. Suppose the PLAN decides to hold a live firing exercise in the waters and there is a Freedom of Navigation cruise cutting across it.

1. How would the USN react?

2. Suppose the cruise continues and a live round hits a USN DDG , what would be the response?
One would hope that political and military planners - not just Americans - have considered this as a possibility.

My recollection is that the Cold War era US-USSR de-confliction agreements included such circumstances and enabled direct military to military communication. Somehow I doubt those agreements informally and formally have been replicated with the PRC.