reedak
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1. During a routine patrol in the Bering Sea and Arctic, US Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf spotted and established contact with Chinese warships, August 30, 2021....
Four Chinese navy vessels were recently spotted operating in waters near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, the US Coast Guard said in a statement Monday.
The People’s Liberation Army Navy task force, comprising a guided-missile cruiser, a guided-missile destroyer, a general intelligence vessel, and an auxiliary vessel, was conducting military and surveillance operations in the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean.....
Source: http://usa-today-news.com/2021/09/1...s-sailing-near-remote-us-territory-in-alaska/
2. To sail through the Bering Strait would be analogous to a stroll in the garden by the Chinese Navy. Under its Trans-Pacific Euro-Atlantic strategy (an ironclad and enduring commitment to regions that span from the Pacific Ocean across the Atlantic Ocean to the European continent), the real breakthrough for the Chinese Navy would be its first historic eastward voyage across the Pacific and the Atlantic through the Panama Canal to friendly European nations on mutual port calls.
The US Navy’s 7th Fleet said US forces would “continue to fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows” and that “nothing” China “says otherwise will deter us.”
Similarly, it won't take long for the Chinese Navy to assert the same rights: "Chinese forces would continue to fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows and that nothing America says otherwise will deter us.”
Additional Reference:
https://www.businessinsider.com/ber...mid-us-russia-tension-arctic-activity-2020-11
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/mil.../us-coast-guard-spots-chinese-warships-alaska
Four Chinese navy vessels were recently spotted operating in waters near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, the US Coast Guard said in a statement Monday.
The People’s Liberation Army Navy task force, comprising a guided-missile cruiser, a guided-missile destroyer, a general intelligence vessel, and an auxiliary vessel, was conducting military and surveillance operations in the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean.....
Source: http://usa-today-news.com/2021/09/1...s-sailing-near-remote-us-territory-in-alaska/
2. To sail through the Bering Strait would be analogous to a stroll in the garden by the Chinese Navy. Under its Trans-Pacific Euro-Atlantic strategy (an ironclad and enduring commitment to regions that span from the Pacific Ocean across the Atlantic Ocean to the European continent), the real breakthrough for the Chinese Navy would be its first historic eastward voyage across the Pacific and the Atlantic through the Panama Canal to friendly European nations on mutual port calls.
The US Navy’s 7th Fleet said US forces would “continue to fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows” and that “nothing” China “says otherwise will deter us.”
Similarly, it won't take long for the Chinese Navy to assert the same rights: "Chinese forces would continue to fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows and that nothing America says otherwise will deter us.”
Additional Reference:
https://www.businessinsider.com/ber...mid-us-russia-tension-arctic-activity-2020-11
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/mil.../us-coast-guard-spots-chinese-warships-alaska
