{"id":772976,"date":"2021-09-17T08:36:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T12:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=772976"},"modified":"2021-09-17T08:36:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T12:36:53","slug":"u-s-coast-guard-makes-contact-with-4-chinese-naval-ships-near-coast-of-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-coast-guard-makes-contact-with-4-chinese-naval-ships-near-coast-of-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Coast Guard Makes Contact With 4 Chinese Naval Ships Near Coast Of Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-coast-guard-makes-contact-with-4-chinese-naval-ships-near-coast-of-alaska%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=772976&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/China-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The United States Coast Guard (USCG) said in a news release this week that it made contact with four Chinese naval vessels near the coast of Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrews interacted with local, national and international vessels throughout the Arctic. During the deployment, Bertholf and Kimball observed four ships from the People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) operating as close as 46 miles off the Aleutian Island coast,\u201d USCG said in a statement. \u201cWhile the ships were within the U.S. exclusive economic zone, they followed international laws and norms and at no point entered U.S. territorial waters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PLAN task force included a guided missile cruiser, a guided missile destroyer, a general intelligence vessel, and an auxiliary vessel. The Chinese vessels conducted military and surveillance operations during their deployment to the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean,\u201d the statement added. \u201cAll interactions between the U.S. Coast Guard and PLAN were in accordance with international standards set forth in the Western Pacific Naval Symposium\u2019s Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea and Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes as China has shown increased aggression toward the United States under the Biden administration, including mocking and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/china-mocks-and-attacks-the-united-states-on-u-s-soil\">disrespecting<\/a>&nbsp;the U.S. on U.S. soil earlier this year.&nbsp;Biden faced harsh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-faces-backlash-after-humiliating-china-meeting-incredible-incompetence-biden-is-weak\">criticism<\/a> after the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Congressional Research Service released a report about the expansion of China\u2019s navy, saying that it is a top issue that U.S. officials are concerned about.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21062032\/china-naval-modernization-implications-for-us-navy-capabilities-background-and-issues-for-congress-sept-9-2021.pdf\">report<\/a> said in-part:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"72\">\n<p><em>In an era of renewed great power competition, China\u2019s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, has become the top focus of U.S. defense planning and budgeting. China\u2019s navy, which China has been steadily modernizing for more than 25 years, since the early to mid-1990s, has become a formidable military force within China\u2019s near-seas region, and it is conducting a growing number of operations in more-distant waters, including the broader waters of the Western Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and waters around Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>China\u2019s navy is viewed as posing a major challenge to the U.S. Navy\u2019s ability to achieve and maintain wartime control of blue-water ocean areas in the Western Pacific\u2014the first such challenge the U.S. Navy has faced since the end of the Cold War. China\u2019s navy forms a key element of a Chinese challenge to the long-standing status of the United States as the leading military power in the Western Pacific. Some U.S. observers are expressing concern or alarm regarding the pace of China\u2019s naval shipbuilding effort and resulting trend lines regarding the relative sizes and capabilities of China\u2019s navy and the U.S. Navy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>China\u2019s naval modernization effort encompasses a wide array of ship, aircraft, and weapon acquisition programs, as well as improvements in maintenance and logistics, doctrine, personnel quality, education and training, and exercises. China\u2019s navy has currently has certain limitations and weaknesses, and is working to overcome them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>China\u2019s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, is assessed as being aimed at developing capabilities for addressing the situation with Taiwan militarily, if need be; for achieving a greater degree of control or domination over China\u2019s near-seas region, particularly the South China Sea; for enforcing China\u2019s view that it has the right to regulate foreign military activities in its 200-mile maritime exclusive economic zone (EEZ); for defending China\u2019s commercial sea lines of communication (SLOCs), particularly those linking China to the Persian Gulf; for displacing U.S. influence in the Western Pacific; and for asserting China\u2019s status as the leading regional power and a major world power.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Consistent with these goals, observers believe China wants its navy to be capable of acting as part of a Chinese anti-access\/area-denial (A2\/AD) force\u2014a force that can deter U.S. intervention in a conflict in China\u2019s near-seas region over Taiwan or some other issue, or failing that, delay the arrival or reduce the effectiveness of intervening U.S. forces. Additional missions for China\u2019s navy include conducting maritime security (including antipiracy) operations, evacuating Chinese nationals from foreign countries when necessary, and conducting humanitarian assistance\/disaster response (HA\/DR) operations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The U.S. Navy in recent years has taken a number of actions to counter China\u2019s naval modernization effort. Among other things, the U.S. Navy has shifted a greater percentage of its fleet to the Pacific; assigned its most-capable new ships and aircraft and its best personnel to the Pacific; maintained or increased general presence operations, training and developmental exercises, and engagement and cooperation with allied and other navies in the Indo-Pacific; increased the planned future size of the Navy; initiated, increased, or accelerated numerous programs for developing new military technologies and acquiring new ships, aircraft, unmanned vehicles, and weapons; begun development of new operational concepts (i.e., new ways to employ Navy and Marine Corps forces) for countering Chinese maritime A2\/AD forces; and signaled that the Navy in coming years will shift to a more-distributed fleet architecture that will feature a smaller portion of larger ships, a larger portion of smaller ships, and a substantially greater use of unmanned vehicles. The issue for Congress is whether the U.S. Navy is responding appropriately to China\u2019s naval modernization effort.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Coast Guard (USCG) said in a news release this week that it made contact with four Chinese naval vessels near the coast of Alaska.\u201cCrews interacted with local, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}