Xi Jinping and China: Running Out of Time, Ready to Strike

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In recent weeks, China has surged its naval fleet into both surrounding and far away waters.

Most significantly, the Peopleโ€™s Liberation Army Navy sent two strike groups into the South China Sea. The larger, centered on the Shandong aircraft carrier, operated off the main Philippine island of Luzon before transiting into the Western Pacific for blue water flight operations. The other is an Expeditionary Strike Group led by a Type 075 Yushen-class amphibious assault ship, one of Chinaโ€™s largest and most advanced. Four of Chinaโ€™s Type 055 Renhai-class cruisers, described as โ€œthe most lethal surface combatant in the world,โ€ escorted the two strike groups.

Chinaโ€™s newest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, has been on its third set of sea trials.

China and Russia began โ€œExercise Joint Sea-2024โ€ at the Zhanjiang port in southern Guangdong province, the headquarters of the Chinese navyโ€™s South Sea Fleet.

A total of 56 aircraftโ€”the most ever in a single day, according to Taiwanโ€™s Ministry of National Defenseโ€”flew into Taiwanโ€™s air-defense identification zone, some coming as close as 33 nautical miles of the southern tip of the main island of Taiwan. Another 10 Chinese planes flew outside the zone at the same time.

Chinese Coast Guard cutter 5901, dubbed โ€œthe Monsterโ€ because of its 12,000-ton displacement, was spotted near Sabina Shoal of the Philippines, in the South China Sea.

Finally, four Chinese naval combatants transited nearby Alaskan islands, staying out of territorial waters but coming inside the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, the band of water between 12 and 200 nautical miles from the shoreline. As James Fanell, co-author of โ€œEmbracing Communist China: Americaโ€™s Greatest Strategic Failure,โ€ told Gatestone, this is the fifth time since 2015 that China dispatched warships inside the American EEZ.

โ€œIn the past couple weeks, the Chinese Communist Party has demonstrated to the regionโ€”and more importantly to Washingtonโ€”that the Peopleโ€™s Republic of China is the master of the seas in the Indo-Pacific,โ€ said Fanell, also a former U.S. Navy captain who served as director of Intelligence and Information Operations at the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

Byย Gordon G. Chang

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