Western experts warn that the alleged militia – with hundreds of boats allegedly funded and controlled by the People’s Liberation Army – is a force to be reckoned with.
But look more closely at video footage of the incident and tucked away in the details is something arguably even more striking: some of the most compelling evidence yet, according to analysts, of the links between the Chinese military and an alleged maritime militia sometimes referred to as Beijing’s “little blue men.
That symbiotic relationship became even clearer in 2021 when the China Coast Guard came under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Central Military Commission effectively making it part of Beijing’s military. “There’s no way they can pull that operation off without it being pre-planned and there being real-time communication between the two,” said Lyle Morris, a senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis and a former US defense official.
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