Taiwan Says It Drove Away Chinese Research Ship
Taiwan’s coast guard said it used multiple ships to stop the Tongji from suspected illegal survey work and force it to leave after five days.
- On Monday, the Taiwan Coast Guard reported it successfully tracked and warned off the Chinese research vessel Tongji after five consecutive days of monitoring the ship suspected of conducting unauthorized hydrological surveys near Taiwan.
- Taiwan detected the Tongji on May 7, approximately 29 nautical miles southeast of Eluanbi, where the vessel was observed lowering cables into the water to deploy scientific instruments for suspected illegal survey operations.
- Using wake interference, the Coast Guard Administration's Chenggong vessel approached the Tongji and broadcast messages to "forcefully expel the vessel, prohibiting it from conducting related activities." The ship retrieved its survey instruments and altered course.
- Following five consecutive days of monitoring, the Tongji retrieved its survey instruments on Monday and reached a position 21 nautical miles outside restricted waters before continuing westward away from Taiwan.
- Taipei views these actions as "grey zone" harassment designed to exhaust its forces, while the Coast Guard warned that attempts to conduct illegal survey activities undermine regional peace and stability.
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Taiwan says it drove away Chinese research ship
Taiwan's coast guard said on Monday that it had disrupted "illegal" operations by a Chinese research ship in waters close to the island and driven it away, part of what Taipei sees a provocative pattern of China's stepped up maritime activities.
At first glance, it is only a research vessel that lets measuring instruments down into the water. For the Taiwan Coast Guard, however, it is part of the Chinese tactic of grievance and is therefore pushed away. Probably also because its work could serve military purposes.
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AlKhaleej TodayTaiwan says it drove away Chinese research ship conducting ‘illegal’ survey near island
TAIPEI, May 11 — Taiwan’s coast guard said today that it had disrupted “illegal” operations by a Chinese research ship in waters close to the island and driven it away, part of what Taipei sees a provocative pattern of China’s stepped up maritime activities.The coast guard said that last Thursday it detected the Chinese ship the “Tongji”, which was commissioned only last year, 29 nautical miles southeast of the southern tip of Taiwan though ju…
Tensions between China and Taiwan continue. A Chinese research vessel is said to have entered a restricted zone. Taiwan values this as a provocation.
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