Four Chinese vessels were ‘transiting in international waters but still inside the US exclusive economic zone’
Multiple Chinese military warships were spotted off the coast of Alaska over the weekend, the US Coast Guard announced.
In a statement released on Wednesday, the US Coast Guard said that it detected three vessels approximately 124 miles (200km) north of the Amchitka Pass in the Aleutian Islands, as well as another vessel approximately 84 miles (135km) north of the Amukta Pass, a strait between the Bering Sea and the north Pacific Ocean.
All four Chinese vessels were “transiting in international waters but still inside the US exclusive economic zone, which extends 200 nautical miles from the US shoreline”, according to the US Coast Guard.
“The Chinese naval presence operated in accordance with international rules and norms,” R Adm Megan Dean of the US Coast Guard said, adding: “We met presence with presence to ensure there were no disruptions to US interests in the maritime environment around Alaska.”
Four Chinese vessels were ‘transiting in international waters but still inside the US exclusive economic zone’
The EEZ doesn’t pose any restrictions on international transit. The Chinese can sail in our EEZ. We can sail in their EEZ. It’s only the territorial sea that’s restricted.
Like, you can say that warships or warplanes being near territory is something to watch, sure, but news media needs to quit exploiting the fact that readers don’t know the difference between different types of waters to manufacture “more-interesting” stories.
Be that as it may:
Chinese warship, go fuck yourself.
You remember how that story ends right?
The Chinese naval presence operated in accordance with international rules and norms,” R Adm Megan Dean of the US Coast Guard said, adding: “We met presence with presence to ensure there were no disruptions to US interests in the maritime environment around Alaska.”
It is a bit more complicated than that, mostly because the US isn’t a signatory to unclos, while China is. However, China does not recognize the agreed upon terms of unclos, while America for the most part does…
but news media needs to quit exploiting the fact that readers don’t know the difference between different types of waters to manufacture “more-interesting” stories.
The problem is that there is conflicting information on how the states in question interprets what they and others can do in EEZs, and how the EEZs are constituted in the first place.
In reality an international body of laws like unclos is only enforceable if the international court is willing to confront its members with hard power. Withholding that, it’s just a dog and pony show that has the possibility of validating an international conflict if someone oversteps their mark.
Send the coastguard out to spray them with water.
LOL, they think that’s some sort of tit-for-tat response to the US Navy transiting the West Philippine Sea, which China is illegally trying to claim. But the US isn’t trying to illegally claim the entire Bering Sea for ourselves, so nobody gives a shit.
It’s cute how they think they matter.
Adorable
Testing the waters…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
All four Chinese vessels were “transiting in international waters but still inside the US exclusive economic zone, which extends 200 nautical miles from the US shoreline”, according to the US Coast Guard.
Responding to US Coast Guard radio communication, the Chinese vessels said their purpose was “freedom of navigation operations”.
“Coast guard cutter Kimball continued to monitor all ships until they transited south of the Aleutian Islands into the north Pacific Ocean.
The Kimball continues to monitor activities in the US exclusive economic zone to ensure the safety of US vessels and international commerce in the area,” the US Coast Guard said.
Last August, the US dispatched four navy warships in addition to a reconnaissance airplane after multiple Chinese and Russian military vessels carried out a joint naval patrol near Alaska.
At the time, the flotilla, which experts said appeared to be the largest to approach US territory, was described as a “highly provocative” maneuver amid Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine as well as political tensions between the US and China over Taiwan.
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Sink those fuckwits. Let’s do like China does with the south China sea… That’s OUR sea. GTFO or be sunk.
