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> bad news generator Well someone has to choose what bad news to highlight and how biased to highlight said news. For example, per capita, Taiwan and S.Korea h
by dirtyid 6y ago
> bad news generator
Well someone has to choose what bad news to highlight and how biased to highlight said news. For example, per capita, Taiwan and S.Korea have larger DWF fleets, Taiwan significantly so. Factor in EEZ and you get a good idea of why.
China: 1400m ppl / 3000 dwf fleet / 900,000km2 eez (3.8m with disputes)
Taiwan: 24m / 414 / 90,000km2
Japan: 162m / 162 / 4,500,000km2
S.Korea: 52m / 198 / 300,00km2
Spain: 47m / 65 / 1,000,000km2
https://www.stimson.org/wp-content/files/file-attachments/Stimson%20Distant%20Water%20Fishing%20Report.pdf https://www.stimson.org/wp-content/files/file-attachments/St...
This EEZ map really explains a lot of tensions in these maritime disputes.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7292/10134658063_fca4fc3da2_o.jpg https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7292/10134658063_fca4fc3da2_o...
- MagnumOpus 6y agoExcept if you even read the first line of the article, China has an unreported additional DWF fleet of another 14,000 vessels.
- dirtyid 6y agoI read the actual study. It counts any vessel that crossed out of Chinese EEZ during the year to be DWF which is a stupid metric. Further Chinese EEZ was undefined which is a gross oversight. Does the count include vessels operating in SCS within China's 9dash bounds? Obviously China wouldn't categorize vessels in her "domestic" waters are DWF. This distinction is as least worth a mentioning but the paper glosses over it entirely. It's typical lazy reporting based on poor research.