U.S. media rendered "China Maritime Threat" for no reason, experts: usual routines, many errors in remarks

[Global Times reporter Guo Yuandan] The US media has begun to render the "China Maritime Threat theory" again. The Fox News reported on the 24th that more and more civilian vessels were used to support its territorial claims and expand military forces. Chinese experts interviewed by a reporter from the Global Times on the 25th said that through the enhancement of China's maritime forces, the "threat of China" is a routine that some media and scholars in the United States. In fact, there are many errors about remarks.

According to the US media report, according to the number of ships, the Chinese Navy is already the largest navy in the world and has been building new warships quickly. But in addition, hundreds of fishing vessels and ferry are moored in the South China Sea for several months, helping China to perform tasks that are difficult for some military forces. Some US media claimed that for decades, China has been using civilian dragging net fishing vessels for military purposes.

The Associated Press quoted Polin, the director of the Asian Maritime Transparent Initiative of Strategy and International Issues Research, claimed that "China can use the nominal civilian vessels, which are obviously commanded by the state and paid money from the state."

Polin also said that these vessels "basically appeared overnight" because China built a port infrastructure that can be used for supply on the Nansha Island Reef a few years ago.

Some Western people have accused China of using civilian vessels as armed forces. Earlier, Tomas Schugart, a researcher at the New American Security Center, stated that China has established a maritime militia team composed of more than 100 commercial fishing vessels. Shugart said, "The ships of maritime militia have automatic weapons. The hull has reinforced, and the maximum speed is faster than the world's 90%of the world's fishing boats." A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs once said that the United States ignored the facts and insisted on calling the Chinese fishing boat as the Chinese fishing vessels " "Maritime militia boat", this is completely ulterior motor and cannot be succeeded.

Ding Duo, deputy director of the Marine Law and Policy Research Institute of the South China Sea Research Institute, said in an interview with a reporter from the Global Times on the 25th that the facts in the above reports were many errors. First of all, although China's maritime strength has increased in recent years, the United States still has the strongest navy in the world. Secondly, some American scholars give special political significance to Chinese fishery production activities, obviously wearing colored glasses to look at China.

Ding Duo said to the "Global Times" reporter: "Hainan, Fujian and other coastal provinces have a high degree of use of fishery resources, and there must be fishermen and fishing boats for specific production activities. For example, how long to go to sea and where to fish is to calculate costs and output, fishermen need enough long -term operations to earn profits. These fishery production activities include both public ownership and private companies, and the United States In order to attack China, think tank scholars described these fishery production actions with the support of the Chinese government and did not take fishery production. This is neither in line with the facts nor objective. "

Ding Duo further pointed out that in fact, China ’s activities in disputed waters, whether it is fishery activities or resource development and utilization, is relatively restrained. For example, China has a fishermanship policy every year, which is an important manifestation of China's independent performance of the coastal national obligations.

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