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Except if you even read the first line of the article, China has an unreported additional DWF fleet of another 14,000 vessels.
by MagnumOpus 6y ago
Except 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.