The Dutch Ministry of Defence has issued a statement describing an “unsafe” close approach by Chinese military aircraft near a Royal Netherlands Navy warship in international waters off China earlier this month. The incident involving the frigate HNLMS Tromp occurred as the ship was operating in...
East China Sea
Chinese Fighter Jets Approached Dutch Ship ‘Unsafely’, Netherlands Says
AMSTERDAM, June 8 (Reuters) – Chinese air force jets circled a Dutch frigate and approached a Dutch helicopter in the East China Sea in a way that “caused a potentially unsafe situation,”…
https://gcaptain.com/chinese-fighter-jets-approached-dutch-ship-unsafely-netherlands-says/
ESB Miguel Keith Drills with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force in East China Sea
Expeditionary sea base USS Miguel Keith(ESB-5) carried out trilateral drills with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Royal New Zealand Air Force in the East China Sea earlier this week.
Destroyer JS Akizuki(DD-115) and a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft performed the drills for...
OPINION | China’s grey-zone provocations: time to reciprocate
It’s time to send a signal to Beijing that a crisis is approaching. China’s use of grey zone tactics is intensifying. This worsening trend line has been evident for several years and seems headed towards an unintended violent incident, a crisis, and possibly armed conflict. Attempts need to be made...
VESSEL REVIEW | Yonggang Tuo 80 – Hybrid tug to serve China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan Port
China’s Jiangsu Zhenjiang Shipyard has delivered a new harbour tug to local operator Ningbo Oil Port Barge for use in the East China Sea port of Ningbo-Zhoushan in Zhejiang province. Yonggang Tuo 80 has an LOA of 39 metres, a beam of 10.6 metres, a depth of 4.9 metres, a design draught of 4.15...
OPINION | How to stop any repeat of the Australia-China sonar incident
Soviet warships regularly sparred with Western navies during the Cold War years, conducting close-in ship-to-ship manoeuvres and pointing lasers against their foreign opponents at sea. China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy have gone one “better” – resorting to what Markus Garlauskas and Philip Yu, writing for the New Atlanticist, called “acoustic aggression” after last month directing […]
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OPINION | China’s “blue dragon” strategy in the Indo-Pacific
To compete strategically with the United States and undermine President Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific policy, China has quietly been advancing its stealthy divide-and-conquer foreign policy agenda on four different but connected frontiers. The core of Beijing’s comprehensive plan can be described as a “blue dragon” strategy, anchored primarily between two “unsinkable aircraft carriers”, Sri Lanka and […]
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Russian, Chinese Warships Prepare for Joint Pacific Naval Exercises
Russian Navy corvettes RFS Sovershenniy (333) and RFS Gromkiy (335). JMSDF photo
Two Russian warships are now in Shanghai ahead of an at-sea exercise with People’s Liberation Army Navy vessels in the Pacific, according to Chinese state media.
Russian Navy corvettes RFS Sovershenniy (333) and RFS Gromkiy (335) called into Shanghai for a weeklong port visit on Wednesday and following the conclusion of the port call will carry out joint exercises with PLAN ships.
The two Russian corvettes, both part...
https://news.usni.org/2023/07/10/russian-chinese-warships-prepare-for-joint-pacific-naval-exercises
China’s Coast Guard Enters Disputed Waters in East China Sea
BEIJING, March 15 (Reuters) – China’s coast guard entered the waters around disputed East China Sea islets on Wednesday to counter what it called the incursion of Japanese vessels into Chinese territorial waters. Disputed…
https://gcaptain.com/chinas-coast-guard-enters-disputed-waters-in-east-china-sea/
Two dead, eight others missing after cargo ship sinks in East China Sea
Two sailors are confirmed dead while eight of their companions have gone missing after their cargo vessel sank in bad weather in the East China Sea on Wednesday, January ..
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