re: China sets trap for U.S., British Navies; catches its own submarine

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So if they had trapped a US or British sub and had the same result, would that have been an act of war?

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Of course not. We would have had an "independent" western country conduct a multi-year investigation only to declare it a navigational incident which was regretted by both countries.

This has been going on since at least Vietnam with the Navy, and certainly before. The USS Pueblo, the USS Liberty, all of this crap gets whitewashed. Since you got me started on the USN, your first job as a captain/crew is to not run into shite, and yet we do it repeatedly. But we need diversity objectives instead. I'll wait for another thread for that.