ALERT - Chinese Fishing Vessel Led Research Ship off Okinawa's Hateruma Island
In August, a Chinese marine research ship was observed operating within Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) off Hateruma Island, trailing a wire-like object from its stern.
"ingeniSPACE," a US-based military research and analysis firm, analyzed the vessels' positional data and concluded that a Chinese fishing vessel, likely, PAF-Maritime Militia, was leading the research ship.
3rd Annual International House Journalism Award -
Prof. Chisako Masuo’s research on China’s fishing-fleet mobilisation — work our analysis supported — was honoured in Japan’s I-House journalism awards.
AFP China Deploys Record Number of Ships Around Taiwan as Pressure Grows
Taiwan's coast guard logged more Chinese government ships in its waters last month than in any month on record. Pressure has stopped being episodic.
China Maritime Militia Tied to Taiwan Undersea Cable Damage in Suspected Gray-Zone Operation
Two vessels with documented maritime-militia training histories were present when the cable to Taiwan's outer islands went down. Not a coincidence.
China Ends East China Sea Fishing Ban: Japan on High Alert Over Maritime Militia Risks - Kyodo News
China's East China Sea fishing ban has lifted and Japan is watching the fleet, not the catch. When the same hulls train, the season opens an operation.
China’s “Shadow Fleet” Is Growing More Active at Sea - The Economist
Fewer aircraft, more maritime coercion. China's new normal around Taiwan is not de-escalation — it is a switch to the quieter instrument of pressure: China’s Maritime Militia. Moreover, the question was never whether the PLA has enough hulls. It is whether it can move, sustain and conceal a campaign in several places at once.
La «nueva normalidad» de China en torno a Taiwán: menos aviones y más coerción marítima
Fewer aircraft, more maritime coercion. China's new normal around Taiwan is not de-escalation — it is a switch to the quieter instrument of pressure.
RTI’s Taiwan Monitor: Tausend chinesische Fischerboote in Formation: China's Maritime Miliz
China's coast guard operates as an instrument of state power, not law enforcement. The manoeuvre east of Taiwan was aimed at Washington's allies too.
NZZ: China’s Coast Guard Is More Than a Police Force. It’s an Instrument of Power. Nur eine grosse Seepolizei? Nein, Chinas Küstenwache ist ein Instrument zur Machtausübung
China’s Coast Guard Is More Than a Police Force. It’s an Instrument of Power.
A #PRC Chinese Coast Guard vessel is maneuvering near #ScarboroughReef in the #SouthChina#Sea. Beijing's recent activities in the region are causing continued tensions.
CIMSEC - China Is Rehearsing More Than Amphibious Landings
Jason Wang and Marvin Bernardo on Sea Control 606, unpacking our Naval War College report: the PLA practiced landing in three places at once.
The invasion debate fixates on amphibious lift. The exercises point elsewhere: moving, sustaining and concealing a campaign across multiple locations.
Satellite Evidence Shows PLA Exercises Are Moving From Demonstration Toward Rehearsal
On this episode of #SeaControl, I host Jason Wang and Marvin Bernardo to discuss their report, “Everything Everywhere All At Once: The Growing Complexity of PLA #Amphibious Exercises,” published by the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute (#CMSI).
“I am a militiaman,” one captain, who leads a fleet, said. He allowed Asahi Shimbun reporters aboard his boat…
A fishing captain told Asahi's reporters he is a militiaman. Analysts put the maritime militia at 200,000–300,000. China’s ambiguity is irregular warfare
“I’m a Militia Member”: Tracking the Chinese Fishing Fleet That Forms a Maritime “Wall”
They said the quiet part out loud; we tracked what they did. AIS and imagery behind the maritime wall — how a line of boats becomes a barrier, and why it recurs.
China Maritime Report #52: Everything Everywhere All At Once — The Growing Complexity of PLA Amphibious Exercises
The PLA landed in three places at once during its annual Amphibious Warfare Capstone Exercises, roughly 360 km apart — about Taipei to Kaohsiung — against obstacles matching Taiwan's coast. A rehearsal.
May 19th - Select Committee on the CCP
600+ vessels in coordinated East China Sea formations, buoys in the Yellow Sea, sustained South China Sea patrols. A decade of coercion below threshold.
OP-ED: 中国が仕掛ける海の「非正規戦」に対抗するには
China's irregular war at sea is not improvised. It is rehearsed, scored and repeated until the window for a proportionate response closes on its own.
OP-ED: 中国侵攻 海の監視強化で対抗
You cannot deter what you cannot see. Countering an invasion of Taiwan can only be stopped if you can see the signals - Taiwan still needs to contribute to the Allied Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance architecture not just rely on it.
See How China Is Gaining Power in Contested Waters - Chinese fishing vessels pushed within 150 miles of a U.S. naval base in Japan last month, the latest maneuver in a decades long campaign
About 200 Chinese fishing boats—part of China’s state-directed maritime fleet—recently pushed further east in the Yellow Sea. Some came within 150 miles of the Japanese city of Sasebo, home to a core U.S. naval base, according to ship-tracking data provided by geospatial analysis firm ingeniSPACE and verified by The Wall Street Journal.
Maritime Executive: China's Naval Drills Show Growing Focus on Capturing Taiwan
Years of drills near Taiwan simulated blockade and landing. The recent round reads differently — less signaling, more rehearsals, more taking and holding.
[PRC STATE MEDIA] Global Times —Distorted reading in ulterior motive: Multiple [PRC] sources refute Western media's lie of 'Chinese fishing boasts militarily massing in East China Sea'
PRC state media has rebutted the AFP and New York Times reporting our analysis supported. A state-media denial is itself a data point worth reading.