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well, when you radio another ship and tell them to leave, and then act like you're going to ram it, and then throw things at it, that's generally an /attempt/ to "not allow" the ship to be there.
What you suggest - harassment is ok as long as you don't actually disallow someone from being in a certain place - has interesting implications in other fields, such as the US civil rights movement. Is it, then, OK to throw things and threaten black people as long as you don't kick them out of your lunch counter? The harassment can't happen. Either the US has the right to be there (And it seems that, assuming our intelligence vessels are not also whale hunting, we do have that right) or it does not. If the US has the right to be there, then Chinese ships should not be harassing them.
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