US and Chinese warships have had dangerous encounters. "We're just trying to enforce the rules-based international order." "We're not trying to escalate," Thomas added. "As long as we're communicating, as long as we're sharing information, these evolutions will stay professional, and that's the goal."Ī confrontation between the USS Decatur, left, and PRC Warship 170, right, in the South China Sea on September 30, 2018. "Every once in a while, there'll be a closer pass between the ships, but again, we plan responses and we have ways to deal with this," Thomas said. Thomas noted that when US ships conduct freedom-of-navigation operations, Chinese ships "may be more interested" in staying between the US ship and the "feature" it's sailing around, such as a contested South China Sea island claimed by Beijing.
"If you're going to make a maneuver," like changing course to launch planes from a carrier, "you'll tell them," Thomas said. "We in general will communicate like you're supposed to, in accordance with the rules of the road on bridge-to-bridge" contact. Thomas, the 7th Fleet commander, also said interactions are "largely" professional. Their interactions were "safe and professional," Bauernschmidt said at a roundtable discussion this month. "Mostly they shadowed our ship just like they shadow any ship that operates in that area." Amy Bauernschmidt, commanding officer of USS Abraham Lincoln, said Chinese ships shadowed the carrier as it operated near China in January, February, and March. Zeng XingjianĬhina also closely tracks US ships. US and Chinese sailors aboard Chinese Navy frigate Hengshui during the US-led Rim of the Pacific exercise on July 25, 2016. "That's a challenge that we're looking at." 'A pattern and a policy'
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It's a "pretty well informed and a pretty good process from what I can see," Kitchener said, adding that the challenge is how to distribute the highly classified results of that process among crews.Ī ship's commander and other officers may know it, "but maybe not the watchstanders, so how do we get that high-level classification to our watchstanders so they understand what they're doing? Or do they necessarily have to understand it?" Kitchener said. "The amount of information that we get on those collections, from observing their flight operations and their capabilities, is invaluable as we crank it back into what we're doing," Kitchener said, describing a process in which that information is evaluated and countermeasures are developed and then tested in war games around the world.
Kitchener credited Dewey with "flawless, precision execution" and said "most of our ships have now participated in all those operations." Kitchener described a classified briefing slide with "a picture of a Chinese aircraft carrier" - either Liaoning or Shandong - "in the optical sight of a destroyer, the USS Dewey, in close." Other US ships have picked up where Mustin left off. Officers aboard USS Mustin monitor Chinese ships in the Philippine Sea, April 4, 2021. Navies often monitor other navies using warships and other intelligence-gathering ships but rarely advertise it. "It's a very thoughtful process that is designed to make sure we're using the force we have and not exceeding" its capacity. The Navy will "pull that information back" and "look at it for the next time," Kitchener added. Thanks to "very good" information "based on intelligence," US forces in the Pacific "know what we think they're going to be doing and where they're going to be, and we'll make sure that we have something there to meet them or to see what they're doing," said Kitchener, who is commander of US naval surface forces and of the Pacific Fleet's naval surface force. Roy Kitchener said at the Surface Navy Association's Waterfront Symposium in San Diego on August 18. RodarteĬhina's operational tempo has been "pretty high," and the US has been keeping track of it, Vice Adm. US Navy cruiser USS Bunker Hill, middle, drills with Chinese navy frigates Daqing, foreground, and Yancheng off of Southern California on December 9, 2016.
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