USNS Impeccable

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I am surprised no one has posted this yet.

From AP via FoxNews

WASHINGTON -- The White House said Monday that U.S. Navy ships will continue to operate in the South China Sea, where five Chinese vessels shadowed and maneuvered dangerously close to a Navy surveillance ship, prompting an American protest.
"We're going to continue to operate in those international waters, and we expect the Chinese to observe international law around that," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said during a Monday press conference.
Gibbs said U.S. officials had "protested the actions of the Chinese ships." A formal protest was relayed to the Chinese government from the U.S. embassy in Beijing and it was to be repeated to a Beijing military attache at a Pentagon meeting Monday.

This occured at about the same distance from Hainan Island, within international waters which the 2001 Hainan Island Incident occured. Lets home they don't decide to start ramming ships to the point where the have to go to the nearest port.