Hypothetical International Incident

[Zkribbler]

Here's the scenario:

A Chinese trawler is just over 12 miles off the California coast "fishing." Really, it is taking pictures and electronic readings of the Vandenberg Air Force Base missile complex.

A hot-shot Coast Guard commander dispatches two fast patrol boats to harass the Chinese. As they "buzz" the trawler, a freak wave hits one and hurls it into the hull of the trawler, which then begins taking on water and is in danger of sinking.

Unable to stop the leaking, the trawler puts into Santa Barbara to make emergeny repairs.

You're the U.S. official in charge of responding to the incident. What do you do?

[Dis]

you allow them to make repairs, and rescue any chinese that have fallen overboard. pretty simple really.

[Dis]

and you are missing the "nuke the trawler" option.

[Japher]

"Sssssssssh, what? sssssssssh, sorry, come again, shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, losing connec... shhhhhhhhh"

[Lawrence of Arabia]

sounds like that AWACS incident over china when the two planes collided. i would seize it.

[Ecthy]

Seize it.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
sounds like that AWACS incident over china when the two planes collided. i would seize it.

but we are nicer than the chinese. And we entered their airspace. In this case the trawler was over 12 miles away from shore.

[Timexwatch]

You declare that the boat is unfit for travel, send "technicians" repair it while the crew is being cared for and you either copy or strip the relevant information from the boat, much like how the Chinese kindly returned our surveillance plane that had to land on Hainan because of a mid-air "accident".

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Dissident
and you are missing the "nuke the trawler" option.

It's in the harbor in Santa Barbara! There's all kinds of artsy-farsy people selling arts and crafts on the boardwalk. There's coeds from UCSB laying nearly naked on the beach. Do we really want to nuke the place?

[Timexwatch]

Originally posted by Dissident


but we are nicer than the chinese. And we entered their airspace. In this case the trawler was over 12 miles away from shore.

From what I read, the collision happened over international waters and the plane was forced to make an emergency landing on Hainan, which is prefectly legitimate. If my memory serves me correctly, this would be an analgous situation.

[Ecthy]

Seize the trailer. Nuke Beijing.

[Kuciwalker]

Ecthelion

[Timexwatch]

Somehow I feel a disturbance in the force...like Urban Ranger is about to come down on this thread like a ton of bricks.....

[MichaeltheGreat]

Re: Hypothetical International Incident

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Here's the scenario:

A Chinese trawler is just over 12 miles off the California coast "fishing." Really, it is taking pictures and electronic readings of the Vandenberg Air Force Base missile complex.

A hot-shot Coast Guard commander dispatches two fast patrol boats to harass the Chinese. As they "buzz" the trawler, a freak wave hits one and hurls it into the hull of the trawler, which then begins taking on water and is in danger of sinking.

Unable to stop the leaking, the trawler puts into Santa Barbara to make emergeny repairs.

You're the U.S. official in charge of responding to the incident. What do you do?

If you're comparing the E3C incident and emergency landing on Hainan, then there's a problem, because maritime and admiralty law doesn't apply to airspace issues and international rules on flight safety.

[Kataphraktoi]

i would:

1:sneak a submarine underneath it and pull it into our waters.

2:seize and strip it and arrest all onbourd for violating your waters

3:docement everything,then return it to the chinese in package form with\without crew