The following year, China merged five civil maritime agencies into the unified Chinese coast guard. Since 2018, it has been under the command of the paramilitary People's Armed Police, which is ...

The discovery led to speculation, which has since been backed up by local reports, that China's coast guard, a law enforcement agency, was obtaining a ship modeled after a 6,500-ton naval destroyer.

Chinese coast guard vessels responded “professionally and with restraint at the site in accordance with China’s law and international law,” he said, without elaborating and mentioning the ...

A state-owned Chinese shipbuilder said it's debuted the design of a "mothership" for its coast guard. Military bloggers in China speculate that it might be an aircraft carrier or a drone platform ...

The frequent maritime face-offs between the China Coast Guard (CCG) and Philippine vessels have drawn significant attention to the CCG's formidable capacity in the vast expanse of the South China Sea.

But they are not Chinese Navy vessels. Their hulls are painted white, with “China Coast Guard” in block letters on the sides. In just a decade, China has amassed the world’s largest coast ...

Languages: English and Chinese. You can get in touch with John by emailing [email protected] China's increasingly powerful coast guard set a new record this week when an armed fleet patrolled a ...

China anchored one of its two “monster” coast guard ships inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) last week in what a Philippine official called an act of “intimidation” in ...

MANILA, Aug 20 (Reuters) - The Philippines on Tuesday said China's coast guard was not helping efforts to build confidence in the South China Sea, after accusing it of ramming and damaging its ...

China has the world's largest coast guard fleet, and it's still building up on an ambitious scale. It's been taking ships from its navy and could be getting its own vessel modeled after a destroyer.