China’s fishing fleet embroiled in rising tensions with US
Financial Times
23-05-23 01:19
The size of China's distant water fishing fleet is increasingly seen by Washington as a national security concern as tensions continue to rise between China and the US. Elizabeth Freund Larus of the Pacific Forum said the fleet was not only depleting fish stocks worldwide but that the dual use of the vessels as both commercial and military vehicles in support of China's navy, coastguard, and maritime police was adding to the fraught relations between the two superpowers. As we have previously covered, US agencies have been instructed by President Biden to combat China's illegal fishing and labour abuses in the market.