“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
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.
The Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz - LNG Headaches for Asia
The blockade of the Strait of.Hormuz is not a Persian Gulf problem — it is an Asian energy problem with a Gulf trigger, and the exposure is not evenly distributed.
中国漁船2000隻が東シナ海で「異常な隊列」 2025年末、26年1月にも
Twice — late 2025 and again in January — up to 2,000 fishing boats in formation in the East Sea We built the case from AIS and satellite imagery.