On March 14, 2016, in the squid grounds off the coast of Patagonia, a rusty Chinese vessel called the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 10 was fishing illegally, several miles inside Argentine waters. Spotted by an ...

China’s aggressive, sometimes illegal fishing practices are the latest source of conflict with the United States. China has the world’s largest fishing fleet. Beijing claims to send around 2,600 ...

China has spent decades overfishing its waters and decimating its sea life. Now, with nowhere left to go, the country’s massive fishing fleet has pushed itself into international waters and at times ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping claims that China seeks only “win-win cooperation” with the rest of the world. The weight of his global action proves the grievous lie of his rhetoric. Still, one ...

“Reports of 300+ Chinese vessels near the Galapagos disabling tracking systems, changing ship names, and leaving marine debris are deeply troubling. We again call on the PRC [People’s Republic of ...

Tensions between Jakarta and Beijing have been flaring following a January 2020 incident in the North Natuna Sea in which the Chinese Coast Guard escorted illegal fishing vessels into Indonesia’s ...

China is the largest consumer, producer and exporter of fish, with a distant-water fleet operating in 93 countries. But Chinese boats are routinely getting into scuffles with foreign authorities for ...

China has long been infamous for incorporating maritime militias into its fishing industry to assert its sovereignty claims. With the world’s largest fishing fleet, comprising 370,000 non-powered and ...

This summer, as China fired missiles into the sea off Taiwan to protest House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island, a much different kind of geopolitical standoff was taking shape in another ...

Dozens of boats containing dead bodies from North Korea have washed up on Japan's west coast recently. Experts say this could be due to a fishing deal between North Korea and China. The phenomenon ...