U.S. Warship Dismisses China's 'Excessive' Claim Near Spratly Islands - NewsBreak

It used to be playing chicken with the Soviets, I can attest to the fact it could get dicey, looks like it is going to get dicey with the Chinese too.

Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
"The U.S. Navy on Tuesday rejected China’s claim that its forces had “tracked and dispelled” an American warship from contested waters near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, which Beijing claims almost entirely.

The USS Chancellorsville, an American guided-missile cruiser, earlier in the day had “trespassed into the waters adjacent to China’s Nansha (Spratly) islands and reefs,” a spokesman for the People’s Liberation Army Southern Theater Command said.

The command also released a map purportedly showing the U.S. warship’s location near Fiery Cross, an artificial island that China has reclaimed and militarized."...

Good!