SECNAV, Navy Maritime Intel Director Give Warnings About Illegal Chinese Fishing

Japanese fishing enforcement interdicts an illegal Chinese fishing boat in 2013.

China must be held accountable for threatening world food security as its globally operating fishing fleet hauls in illegal catch from other nations’ waters, the Navy’s top intelligence officer said at a regional maritime conference in Panama last week.

“Every other country shouldn’t suffer for China’s rise,” said Rear Adm. Michael Studeman, the commander of the Office of Naval Intelligence, said last week. He said...

https://news.usni.org/2023/03/06/secnav-navy-maritime-intel-director-give-warnings-about-illegal-chinese-fishing

Russian Arctic Threat Growing More Potent, Report Says

Russian Borei-class nuclear submarine Generalissimus Suvorov. TASS Photo

Russia’s Northern Fleet’s ballistic missile submarines and strategic bomber force’s capabilities remain intact despite the heavy toll the country’s invasion into Ukraine has had on its naval infantry, army and special forces assigned to the Kola Peninsula, a new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies found.

The Arctic remains “of great strategic value to Russia,” Njord Wegge, a professor at the...

https://news.usni.org/2023/01/26/russian-arctic-threat-growing-more-potent-report-says

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