US and Chinese warships came perilously close to collision, and it’s probably going to keep happening

The grainy surveillance photos look like something from the Cold War. But they were captured early this week, when a US Navy destroyer had to change course to avoid colliding with a Chinese warship somewhere in the South China Sea.

The images show two ships, apparently cruising next to each other at a dangerous distance of only 45 yards apart. Check out those photos.

It’s just the sort of incident that military strategists might use in a war planning scenario to explain how one thing can lead to another, and two world powers could quickly find themselves in a serious — even potentially nuclear — confrontation.

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