"China Has Three Navies: The Regular Navy, The ..." Topic

…. Police Navy And The Sneaky Navy.

"Numerical superiority allows China's second and third sea forces to flood the maritime gray zone in ways that its neighbors, as well as the United States, may find very hard to counter.

As a friend's five-year-old puts it, "China has three navies: the regular navy, the police navy and the sneaky navy." Each of these three sea forces is the world's largest of its type by number of ships—at least by some measures. China is truly a maritime power in its own right, and its sea forces' numbers matter in important ways. In maritime "gray zone" operations, Beijing employs its enormous coast guard and maritime militia to further its disputed Yellow, East and South China Sea sovereignty claims using coercion short of warfare. This article, which is part one in a series, will focus on these quantitatively superior second and third sea forces…."
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Lol. I love that term, the "sneaky navy".

True, for years now the Vietnamese and Philippine governments have been receiving reports from their fishing boats in the South China Sea*, which have been rammed and fired upon by Chinese vessels crewed by militia dressed as civilian crews. These Chinese "private" patrol vessels are clearly enforcing their government's policy of encroachment on that entire area.

I guess the PRC is looking for easy ways to deny their direct involvement in those hostile acts.

Dan
* Not just when their fishing boats are in international waters. At times also when their fishermen are still within their respective country's own territorial waters (EEZ).

Sneaky navy spotted again off Argentina coast….. This time was shot at.

I have seen the video… one on hundreds… (smile)

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Armand