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Re: Chinese fighter intercepts Navy Poseidon
« Reply #361 on: May 31, 2024, 01:18:56 PM »
Very long but if you are interested in geopolitics this is a fantastic read...

https://tnsr.org/2024/05/confronting-another-axis-history-humility-and-wishful-thinking/
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Re: Chinese fighter intercepts Navy Poseidon
« Reply #362 on: June 13, 2024, 06:37:06 AM »
https://www.dni.gov/files/NCSC/documents/products/Safeguarding_Our_Military_Expertise.pdf
A document from US, UK, Australian, Canadian, New Zealanders intelligence...
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Re: Chinese fighter intercepts Navy Poseidon
« Reply #363 on: June 15, 2024, 09:22:22 AM »
Philippines promises to protect fishermen as China’s trespass rule takes hold
A new regulation says the Chinese coast guard can arrest foreign vessels and crew in waters claimed by Beijing.
By BenarNews staff
2024.06.14

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/southchinasea/protect-fishermen-trespassing-06142024141311.html
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Re: Chinese fighter intercepts Navy Poseidon
« Reply #364 on: June 16, 2024, 08:07:49 AM »
https://ejfoundation.org/reports/tide-of-injustice-exploitation-and-illegal-fishing-on-chinese-vessels-in-the-southwest-indian-ocean#:~:text=This%20report%20maps%20the%20presence,coastal%20communities%20across%20its%20shores.

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TIDE OF INJUSTICE: EXPLOITATION AND ILLEGAL FISHING ON CHINESE VESSELS IN THE SOUTHWEST INDIAN OCEANPUBLICATION DATE  11-04-24 TYPE  REPORT

This report maps the presence and activities of the Chinese DWF in the Southwest Indian Ocean (SWIO), a region notable for its biodiversity-rich seascape, which is a lifeline to coastal communities across its shores. The findings of the report show that while couched in terms of win-win, sustainable development and collective benefits from the blue economy, the realities on board many vessels in China’s DWF are in direct contradiction of these stated aims.

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Re: Chinese fighter intercepts Navy Poseidon
« Reply #365 on: July 05, 2024, 07:18:26 AM »
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-south-china-sea-matters-211730

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Clashes between the China Coast Guard and the Philippine Navy escalated in June. Philippine officials announced late last month that Chinese personnel attacked dinghies attempting to provision Philippine troops at the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea.

If China succeeded in dominating the South China Sea, the consequences would be immense: Beijing could potentially choke off trade and shipments to Japan, control access to technologies crucial to U.S. economic activities (especially microchips), and project power deep into the Pacific.

The economic significance of the South China Sea cannot be overstated. As one of the busiest maritime routes in the world, it serves as a vital artery for international trade, facilitating the flow of 64 percent of total goods discharged worldwide in 2022. Any disruption to the free passage of ships through these waters would have far-reaching consequences for the global economy, affecting not only the countries directly involved in the dispute but also the broader international community.

Any attempt by China to restrict access or assert control over the South China Sea would directly impact U.S. economic interests, potentially leading to higher shipping costs, supply chain disruptions, and increased market volatility. South China Sea trade accounts for 5.72 percent of all trade in goods for the United States. Safeguarding freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is essential to protecting American prosperity and maintaining its leadership role in the global economy.

While neighboring countries adhere to their internationally recognized Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) for their maritime claims, China asserts sovereignty over a broad swathe of ocean in the South China Sea encompassed by the “nine-dash line.” In 2016, an international tribunal in The Hague ruled against China’s claims, stating that it cannot claim rights to resources in the South China Sea that lie within the EEZs of other coastal states like the Philippines and Vietnam. China rejected the ruling and promptly threatened military force against Vietnam for drilling within its EEZ.

In March of this year, two Philippine naval ships and two coastguard vessels were escorting a civilian boat hired to resupply troops at the Second Thomas Shoal. A Chinese coastguard vessel and two maritime militia vessels encircled the Filipino troops, using water cannons that damaged the civilian boat and harmed crew members. Following several of these encounters, the Philippines has lodged diplomatic protests in Beijing and appealed to the United States for an increased U.S. military presence in the Philippines.

The best way for America to prevent China from seizing control of the South China Sea is to strengthen its own ability to deter China while working with others in the region who feel threatened by the Chinese, including Taiwan, the Philippines, and Vietnam, as well as other states in the broader Indo-Pacific who have an interest in maintaining a free and open South China Sea, like Japan, Australia, South Korea, and India.

The Chinese Communist Party is the odd man out here, pushing for a redefinition of treaties and rebalancing of regional power at the expense of most of its neighbors. The U.S. military’s deterrent effect on the Chinese attempt to establish hegemony in the South China Sea and the Indo-Pacific more generally serves the national security interests of both the United States and the overwhelming majority of countries in the Indo-Pacific.  

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Re: Chinese fighter intercepts Navy Poseidon
« Reply #366 on: August 20, 2024, 05:31:25 PM »
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2024/08/20/2003822498

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China’s Taiwan strategy would use three carriers

ACCESS DENIAL: Beijing would likely take formation in the Philippine Sea, outside Taipei’s missile range, while its forces on the east would be a deterrent to foreign aid

By Chen Yu-fu and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer

China is increasingly likely to employ a strategy of anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) around Taiwan, which would use three carrier groups, a report from the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said.

When China’s third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, is completed next year, China would have three carriers, which would likely be used to surround Taiwan and implement an A2/AD strategy, it said, adding that efforts to strengthen China’s two other carriers — the Liaoning and the Shandong — appear to corroborate this.

In the quarterly report, the council cited declassified documents from the Ministry of National Defense that categorized China’s carriers as a threat if used for A2/AD, and said that China might coordinate its naval, air force and rocket force capabilities to operate beyond the first island chain and deter foreign forces from getting involved in a conflict involving Taiwan.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force would deploy medium and long-range conventional ground-attack and anti-ship ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles to foreign forces in the area between the first and second island chains, it said.

Citing military researchers, the report said that in the event of an attempted invasion of Taiwan, Chinese forces would likely first take formation in the northern part of the Philippine Sea, somewhere between 300km and 800km east of Taiwan proper. This posture would allow China to face Taiwan simultaneously on two fronts, with forces east of Taiwan also acting as a deterrent to foreign forces, it said.

Separately, Institute for National Defense and Security Research fellow Su Tzu-yun (蘇紫雲) on Sunday said that China’s three carriers are part of China’s transition from a land power to a sea power.

The introduction of the Fujian into service would help make the PLA Navy a “blue water navy,” and allow China to more effectively encircle Taiwan, he said.

The range of Taiwan’s Xiangfeng missiles is 200km to 250km, so China’s carriers would be deployed 300km or more east of Taiwan, putting them out of range, he said. Meanwhile, the range of the fighter jets that would be deployed from the carriers is about 800km, so an attack on Taiwan could be launched from within a safe range.

Taiwan can use anti-ship missiles to attack approaching enemy ships, but must rely on submarines to deal with long-distance aircraft, he said, adding that domestically-built submarines are important.

In the event of a war, it would be difficult for Chinese aircraft to safely pass through the Bashi Strait or Miyako Strait, he said, adding that if the US were to help Taiwan, China’s aircraft carriers in waters east of Taiwan would be “sandwiched” between attacks from both sides.

Within the strategic triangle comprised of Hawaii, Guam and Taiwan, Chinese carriers would become the target of the US military, he said.

“Thoughts to the contrary are simply wishful thinking on the part of the Chinese,” he said.

Chinese aircraft carriers stationed east of Taiwan during an attack would also be subject to a war of attrition since they would need supplies within one to two weeks, he said.

“Since the passage of supply ships through the Bashi Channel or Miyako Strait would be too dangerous, and China has no overseas bases, supplying the carriers would be impossible,” he said. “Any advantage brought by the carriers would be quickly lost.”

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Re: Chinese fighter intercepts Navy Poseidon
« Reply #367 on: August 24, 2024, 06:49:10 AM »
Taiwan, South China Sea, India are just the beginning...Russia beware...

https://www.derpragmaticus.com/r/china-russland-gebietsansprueche

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late August, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is expected to publish an updated version of its "standard map" to reflect its growing territorial claims. Its neighbors see it as an ominous sign of China's imperialist threat. But for the party, it is a near-sacred document that embodies China's historical claims and vision of which lost territories must be reclaimed. All of this is under the banner of "national rejuvenation" - a central concept of Xi Jinping that aims to restore the country as a dominant superpower by the People's Republic's centenary in 2049.

In the current version of the standard map, published last year, eight Russian cities along the Sino-Russian border were suddenly given their Chinese names. Vladivostok is called "Haishenwai." Khabarovsk, Russia's easternmost city, is called "Bólì." Bolshoi Ussuriysky - Hiexiazi Island in Chinese - which is supposedly used jointly by Moscow and Beijing, is described as purely Chinese. China's "national rejuvenation" would be incomplete without the territories once lost to Russia.
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Re: Chinese fighter intercepts Navy Poseidon
« Reply #368 on: September 02, 2024, 07:25:34 AM »
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/09/uscg-pacific-comments-latest-chinese-ramming-of-philippine-coast-guard-vessel/

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USCG Pacific Comments Latest Chinese Ramming of Philippine Coast Guard VesselChina, despite its protestations of innocence, is the South China Sea’s greatest source of instability. This was illustrated on 31 August when China Coast Guard (CCG) vessel ‘5205’ deliberately collided with a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) vessel several times near Sabina Shoal, 75nm from the Palawan coast. The Philippines deployed a ship there in April after China furtively attempted to develop it into an artificial island.

Gordon Arthur  02 Sep 2024

This was the fifth time in a month that China had confronted Philippine law enforcement agencies within the country’s own EEZ, as China goes all out to push the Philippines away from this shoal and others. The presence of two naval tugboats suggested China might even have been contemplating towing the Philippine vessel away after immobilising it.

China says its actions are “‘professional, restrained and appropriate”, whereas the majority recognise them as unprofessional, dangerous and inappropriate. For example, the New Zealand Embassy in Manila stated, “This latest incident, with a CCG vessel ramming a Philippine vessel, is profoundly troubling and fits a recent pattern of dangerous and destabilising actions in the region. New Zealand calls for de-escalation and compliance with international law, in particular UNCLOS.”

The USA vocalized its condemnation too. Rear Admiral Andrew M. Sugimoto, Deputy Commander, US Coast Guard (USCG) Pacific Area, said:

“We unequivocally condemn the ramming of vessels. The whole point of rules on the water is so that we don’t run into each other, and so this is a clear act of bullying by one individual that wants to exert its influences over another nation with complete disregard for the rules and the international law that exists.”

RADM Sugimoto, who was promoted to his post in July, asked which international rules condoned ramming as a measure for upholding international law, especially when collision regulations are designed to prevent vessels from hitting each other. “So it’s a little astounding to say that I’m going to break the law in order to uphold the law. It just doesn’t make sense, and I think most nations out there see that as unsafe and unprofessional conduct, which only highlights and further emphasises the bullying that is going on, right?”


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Re: Chinese fighter intercepts Navy Poseidon
« Reply #369 on: September 19, 2024, 06:32:35 AM »
Watch the video... released by the Chinese... pretty clear who the aggressor is...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1834581288596152634
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Re: Chinese fighter intercepts Navy Poseidon
« Reply #370 on: October 05, 2024, 06:46:39 AM »
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/china-taiwan-weekly-update-october-4-2024

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The Wall Street Journal reported that US investigators are investigating a hacking campaign by PRC state-sponsored threat actors that infiltrated US-based internet service providers (ISP) to conduct espionage.[10] Investigators are calling the campaign Salt Typhoon, following the Microsoft naming convention for cyber threat actors attributed to the PRC. Salt Typhoon is also known as GhostEmperor and Famous Sparrow, according to Microsoft’s cybersecurity division.[11] PRC-based threat actors’ access to US ISPs and telecommunications companies. Gaining access to the digital infrastructure of ISP and telecom companies would position PRC-based threat actors to steal sensitive data and potentially affect the flow of internet traffic.

Estonian cybersecurity research firm ESET discovered the threat actor, which it named FamousSparrow, in 2021 after observing activity that targeted hotels, engineering companies, and international and government organizations in 12 countries worldwide, including Taiwan.[12] Russian cybersecurity research firm Kaspersky publicized other malicious activity from a Chinese-speaking threat actor that it called GhostEmperor a week later.[13] Kaspersky linked GhostEmperor to FamousSparrow based on a common IP address across the activity in both companies’ investigations. Kaspersky reported that the threat actor infiltrated government entities and telecommunications companies in Southeast Asia and suggested geopolitically motivated espionage as a possible purpose, based on the targets.

The Salt Typhoon revelations follow a September 18 cybersecurity advisory from the US and UK that revealed an extensive botnet under the control of PRC state-sponsored cyber threat actor Flax Typhoon. The botnet infected over 260,000 small office/home office (SOHO) routers and internet-linked devices worldwide, almost half of which were in the US.[14]

Former US Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) suggested that the threat actor could be Advanced Persistent Threat 40 (APT40), another cyber threat actor that the Five Eyes, Germany, South Korea, and Japan have attributed to the PRC Ministry of State Security (MSS) Hainan branch.[15] The Wall Street Journal reported that Salt Typhoon’s focus on intelligence collection is notably different from other assessed PRC state-sponsored threat actors such as Volt Typhoon. The Five Eyes countries issued a joint advisory on February 7 that exposed Volt Typhoon’s targeting of critical infrastructure in the United States.[16] The Five Eyes countries assessed that the purpose of this campaign was to develop the capability to disrupt key operational technology functions in the event of a conflict with the United States by leveraging its access to informational technology environments. 

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