New satellite imagery has revealed for the first time a hulking steel rig that China installed in the Yellow Sea between China and South Korea — the Provisional Measures Zone (PMZ), a jointly managed stretch of the Yellow Sea (known in Korea as the West Sea) where the Chinese and South Korean EEZs overlap. The structure —installed without South Korea’s knowledge or consent — is viewed by Seoul as violating the PMZ agreement.
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government could be using the rig in a "salami-slicing" strategy to incrementally expand its presence in the PMZ. South Korea may suspect there is more happening there than just aquaculture, such as signals intelligence operations.
This is a classic Chinese gray-zone aggression clothed in a perfectly plausible civilian justification.
newsweek.com/china-installs
government could be using the rig in a "salami-slicing" strategy to incrementally expand its presence in the PMZ. South Korea may suspect there is more happening there than just aquaculture, such as signals intelligence operations.
This is a classic Chinese gray-zone aggression clothed in a perfectly plausible civilian justification.
newsweek.com/china-installs
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South Korea’s political parties — the ruling People Power Party (PPP) and the opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) — are ramping up criticism over China’s unauthorized construction of large steel structures in a disputed area of the West Sea (Yellow Sea) known as the x.com/Byron_Wan/stat…