China Coast Guard Archives

February 27, 2023

COLUMN | Heading for a showdown in the South China Sea? [Naval Gazing]

Written by Trevor Hollingsbee on February 27, 2023. Posted in Non-Naval (Maritime Security), Ships (Naval), Work Boat World Features.

Tensions around the Spratly and Paracel Islands in the South China Sea (SCS) have been on a rising curve since China’s de facto annexation of Mischief Reef in 1995. The ..

January 17, 2023

Beijing ratchets up the pressure in the South China Sea

Written by Trevor Hollingsbee on January 17, 2023. Posted in Catching, Naval, Non-Naval (Maritime Security), Regulation & Enforcement.

Taking advantage of the West’s focus on the war in Ukraine, China is rapidly bolstering its already dominant position in the South China Sea. Recent reports from Asian ..

February 24, 2022

COLUMN | Standing up to China: tensions mount in Asian waters [Naval Gazing]

Written by Trevor Hollingsbee on February 24, 2022. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Maritime Security, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Maritime Security, Naval, Non-Naval (Maritime Security), Work Boat World Features.

For many years, paramilitary patrol ships of the China Coast Guard (CCG) and its predecessor, China Maritime Surveillance, usually lightly-armed, but often with the reinf ..

February 13, 2023

Philippine Coast Guard reports lasing by Chinese vessel in Spratlys

Written by Baird Maritime on February 13, 2023. Posted in Non-Naval (Maritime Security).

The Philippine Coast Guard has reported an incident wherein one of its vessels was illuminated by a military-grade laser light from a Chinese ship in the disputed Spratly ..

January 16, 2023

OPINION | How China’s maritime militia takes advantage of the grey zone

Written by Masaaki Yatsuzuka on January 16, 2023. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Maritime Security, Catching, Fishing Boat World Features, Fishing Boat World Vessel Reviews, Marine Research and Training, Naval, Naval auxiliary/support vessels, Non-Naval (Maritime Security), Regulation & Enforcement, Work Boat World Features.

At the end of last year, Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies released the 2023 edition of its annual China security report, which focuses on China’s quest ..

February 3, 2022

Beijing assigns new warships to Hong Kong

Written by Trevor Hollingsbee on February 3, 2022. Posted in Ships (Naval).

In late 2021 Beijing deployed a pair of new Type 056A corvettes bearing the hull numbers 666 and 667 to Hong Kong to replace the existing early model Type 056 corvettes Q ..

February 7, 2023

OPINION | Global energy scarcity and the South China Sea

Written by Suryaputra Wijaksana on February 7, 2023. Posted in Naval, Non-Naval (Maritime Security), Offshore Construction, Offshore Exploration, Work Boat World Features.

Last month, the Indonesian government approved natural gas exploration in the Tuna gas bloc, part of the largest untapped natural gas deposit in the world. The developmen ..

March 27, 2022

Philippine Coast Guard reports close distance manoeuvring of Chinese vessel in Scarborough Shoal

Written by Baird Maritime on March 27, 2022. Posted in Non-Naval (Maritime Security).

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has provided the details of a recent close distance manoeuvring incident involving a vessel of the China Coast Guard (CCG) in the waters ..

January 27, 2022

COLUMN | The Philippine Navy: no longer a scrapyard fleet [Naval Gazing]

Written by Trevor Hollingsbee on January 27, 2022. Posted in Naval, Non-Naval (Maritime Security), Work Boat World Features.

For many years the Philippine Navy (PN) could provide only threadbare security for the nation’s 5,700 million square kilometres sea area and 7,600 islands. Its order of ..