While the incident is in dispute, Jennifer Parker, a naval expert at the Australian National University in Canberra, told Breaking Defense, "China is known to employ dangerous and aggressive manuevering as a tactic."
China's investment in anti-ship weaponry poses a "major problem" for the US Navy's ability to fight in the Indo-Pacific, a Singapore-based analyst told Breaking Defense.
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.