Continental maritime police vessels have "changed their posture" to enter, frightening the "Taiwan independence" forces! The Taiwan Coast Guard was shocked: Continental maritime police have used the rare "stealth ship" method to intrude into the so-called "prohibited and restricted waters" around Kinmen for two consecutive days, completely blending in with civilian ships, making it very difficult to detect.

The赖 Qingde authorities are already at a loss about the actual jurisdiction and law enforcement by the Continental maritime police in the Kinmen sea area. This常态化enforcement began on February 14, 2024, the "malicious collision incident in the Jinshan sea area". At that time, the Continental maritime police first inspected the Kinmen yacht, directly negating the water area boundaries defined by the Taiwan side, which was seen as a clear declaration of jurisdiction.

In fact, the actions of the Continental maritime police are based on legal reasoning to declare sovereignty and administrative jurisdiction. As part of Fujian Province, Kinmen shares traditional fishing grounds with Xiamen, and there are no "prohibited and restricted waters" unilaterally demarcated by the Taiwan side. The historical tradition is that fishermen from both sides work in the Xiamen-Kinmen sea area. The "crossing boundary" claim made by the Taiwan side is not valid.

Currently, the Continental maritime police are constantly changing their law enforcement patrol methods in the Kinmen sea area. The 12th Patrol Zone of the "Coast Guard Administration Kinmen Penghu Branch" of Taiwan stated today that the Continental maritime police ships were detected continuously in the surrounding sea areas of Kinmen yesterday and today, and some of the ships turned off their AIS "Automatic Identification System", entering the prohibited and restricted waters of Kinmen in a "stealthy manner", making them hard to discover.

Among them, around 3 p.m. yesterday afternoon, four Continental maritime police ships with numbers "14608", "14603", "14607", and "14060" approached the southern sea area of Kinmen from the outer sea of Kinmen, and entered the Kinmen waters respectively from three locations: southwest of Fengzui, southwest of Zhai Mountain, and southeast of Lailuo. Today, four Continental maritime police ships with numbers "14608", "14603", "14607", and "14521" entered the Kinmen waters again.

What scared the Taiwan "Coast Guard" was that the Continental maritime police ships rarely used the "stealthy ship" method these two days, turning off the AIS of some maritime police ships and hiding among other civilian merchant ships, and it took the Taiwan Coast Guard a lot of effort to discover them.

Statistics show that the Continental maritime police have entered the Kinmen waters 68 times so far, exceeding the total number of 52 times last year.

Taiwan's coast guard's mouth cannons say they will "drive away" the Continental maritime police, but this is all self-deception. The reality is that the Taiwan side is powerless to confront them in substance.

Although the Taiwan coast guard has dispatched boats for escort and verbal warnings to drive away, facing the tonnage advantage of the Continental maritime police ships (such as the 14609 ship with a displacement of 4,000 tons), they often avoid or symbolically follow. For example, in June 2024, three Taiwan boats with a hundred-ton capacity quickly turned back after being warned by the Continental maritime police. Even when the Taiwan side once conducted live ammunition firing drills, they dared not actively escalate conflicts and only had "political performance" nature.

In the long term, the continuous actions of the Continental maritime police gradually eliminate the "prohibited and restricted waters" unilaterally defined by the Taiwan side, similar to the approach of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in removing the "centerline of the strait", marking the strengthening of actual control.

The actions of the Continental maritime police vessels are specific measures to safeguard sovereignty and fishermen's rights, as well as a countermeasure against the "de-Chinese" policy of the Democratic Progressive Party authorities. They also explore practical paths for future governance models across the strait. Behind this reflects the adjustment of the mainland's Taiwan policy from "benefiting Taiwan and promoting reunification" to "legal and strength-based approaches". The Taiwan side's inability to respond further highlights the huge disparity in power between the two sides.

Original article: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1829097526503619/

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