China Coast Guard gains new powers

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While America was going through Impeachment #2.

This is the key, as it related to Taiwan and others in their orbit, thanks to China expanding their land in the water through artificial man-made islands:

Unfortunately, this law is highly problematic; one clause states it "will allow the coast guard to check foreign vessels, mooring and operating in China's jurisdictional seas." The difficulty arises in defining just what "jurisdictional seas" are. China illegally claims the vast majority of the South China Sea via its ambiguous Nine-Dash Line. However, such maritime claims have absolutely no international credence under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), to which China is a signatory.

Just as China has forced down civilian planes from Taiwan, they will now be harrassing, searching, arresting citizens of other nations. THIS is how communist and domestic bullies operate internationally. If a nation focuses on unaccountable, domestic controls, they won't change when dealing with International encounters (if Canada had the military power the U.S had for all those decades, I wonder if we would have operated more like China than the U.S had for so long...).


Hong Kong, February 15 (ANI): The Chinese government rammed through a new domestic law on 22 January 2021 giving the China Coast Guard (CCG) greater authority, a move that will boost tensions in the South China, East China and Yellow Seas.

The 25th Standing Committee session of the 13th National People's Congress had posted an online version of the Maritime Police Law of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on 4 November, and it was eventually promulgated on 1 February.
The CCG had been complaining for years about inadequate legislation governing how it should use force. Some proponents for change thus argued for greater flexibility when responding to contingencies.
 
Yeah, during the last week of impeachment China built another artificial island...All it takes is 24 hours with our new pop-up island kit.
 

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