[By Eli Huang]
China’s new law giving the China Coast Guard more freedom to use force has increased the concerns of China’s neighbors. The Philippines filed a formal rejection of it on January 27, emphasizing that, given the large area involved and China’s ongoing disputes in the South China Sea, the law is a verbal threat of war to any country that defies it.
On February 8, a week after the law came into effect, China’s largest maritime patrol vessel, Haixun 06 (??06), was launched from Wuhan...
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