美中军舰险相撞，当年撞机要翻版？

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(1) 美中军舰险相撞，当年撞机要翻版？ VOA Chinese, Dec 16, 2013.
www. .com/content/us-china-ship-clash-20131216/1811325.html

Note: The report cites

社评: 避免在中国门口相撞，美舰责任第一. 环球时报, Dec 16,, 2013
opinion.huanqiu.com/editorial/2013-12/4663838.html

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"基本事实是，中国早就宣布了南海的三块海域是军事海域，外界都清楚它们将用于辽宁舰的科研和训练。此外南海是中国近海，很多水域还是中国专属经济区。美国分明是堵到了中国的家门口，美舰抵近辽宁舰侦察已经不是什么“无害通过”，它已对中国的国家安全构成威胁。如果美国海空军总在中国家门口转悠，'对峙'是注定要发生的。

"因为南海不是'无人之境，'它靠近中国大陆，在很大程度上处于中国综合力量的威慑范围之内，中国海军不会允许美国军舰在这里想干什么就干什么。我们并不认为南海是美国太平洋舰队可以肆意炫耀武力的舞台。避免中美在南海摩擦，来自于我们同美建立新型大国关系的愿望，而并非是美国这支舰队施加压力的结果。

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(2) Jane Perlez, 中美军舰在南海险些相撞. 纽约时报中文网, Dec 16, 2013
cn.nytimes.com/asia-pacific/20131216/c16collision/

, which is translated from

Jane Perlez, American and Chinese Navy Ships Nearly Collided in South China Sea. New York Times, Dec 15, 2013.

Quote:

"The near collision, which occurred on Dec 5 but did not become public until Friday [Dec 13, 2013]

"The information office at the Chinese Ministry of National Defense did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the maritime encounter.

"The [missile-carrying cruiser USS] Cowpens was observing the Chinese carrier, the Liaoning * * * The Chinese vessel cut across the bow of the America ship at a distance of less than 200 yards, the defense official said. The vessel was similar to an American tank landing ship and was accompanying the aircraft carrier.

"'Our cruiser was operating in international waters of the South China Sea, not close into the coast and in the general vicinity of the aircraft carrier,' the defense official said. The Chinese ship accompanying the aircraft carrier began shouldering the American cruiser, and then crossed its bow, he said. * * * It was not clear how far the Cowpens was sailing from the Chinese aircraft carrier. But because of sophisticated American radar, it did not have to be particularly close to observe it, naval experts said.

Note:
(a) USS Cowpens (CG-63)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cowpens_(CG-63)
(1991- ; a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser; named after the Battle of Cowpens [Jan 17, 1781], a major American victory near Cowpens, South Carolina, in the American Revolution)

(b) The Battle of Cowpens. National Park Service, undated
www.nps.gov/cowp/historyculture/the-battle-of-cowpens.htm

Quote:

"The term 'cowpens' 15, endemic to such South Carolina pastureland and associated early cattle industry, would be etched in history.

"[footnote] 15[:] "cowpens" - A term, endemic to South Carolina, referring to open-range stock grazing operations of the colonial period. These were usually cleared areas, 100 to 400 acres in extent. Many, in eastern South Carolina, were known for their native cane- brakes. Piedmont pastures, though less numerous, often contained peavine.

(c) Landing Ship, Tank
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_Ship,_Tank