[gruez]

>If USN carrier group must sail to help Taiwan in short notice and huge fleet of these ships just happen to stand in the way, then what? It's huge risk just to just assume that they are unarmed and sail trough, or that they have not mined the area. Just being able to provide targeting for Chinese anti-ship ballistic missiles is a big problem.

Sounds like they're using civilian ships as human shields or cannon fodder to me. What's the legality of this? I feel like this would run afoul of some sort of international law requiring combatants to be identified[1], or preventing them from using civilians as human shields[2]. Can

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_war#Lawful_conduct_of_b...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_shields_(law)

[Nexxxeh]

If they are, and one were to draw up a list of other human rights violations and international laws that China is breaking, I don't think this would make the top five.