Guess who is innocently stalking Alaska?
......The usual comments note that although this is the EEZone, it allows freedom of navigation. '
Yes, but often the Chinese make such moves as tests and then increase their aggression... they push, then say hey let's not be aggressive and make peace (but we'll keep what we grabbed). They have done this against the Philippines and Vietnam and India.
And it's not just about land: it's about resources.
It should be noted that for years, their illegal fishing has been destroying the local ecosystem without any pushback. So now they are sending in the fleet as a way to point out that they will protect their "innocent" fishermen if the US gov't tries to stop them (we see this in the West Philippine sea all the time).
The problem of course is that this type of behavior by China often predates other forms of aggression... including moves in the northeast Pacific against Japanese owned islands. that are not so much about taking them from Japan but about warning Japan not to stop them if they invade Taiwan and other small islands off the coast of China that were once part of the Japanese empire.
of course it's just a matter of time until China claims all the islands off their coast (i.e. the First Island Chain) which has implications on stopping shipping to Japan and Korea. And I suspect that their long term plan includes grabbing Eastern Siberia, where they have a large civilian population working there. (denied here by a pro Chinese author).
So why worry if Siberia has a lot of Chinese working there? Ah, but how many of these civilian workers are part of the Chinese military? (I read that many of the 100 thousand of the Chinese working in the casinos in Manila are military members, and there have been quite a few very young Chinese moving here under our "Retiree" visa.... hmm...)
more about the military implications of what is going on: the concept of the First Island chain: LINK
and this article on the First Island chain notes that many consider the Aleutian Islands the northern link to the chain. (and Luzon as the southern most link).
sigh.
well, anyway, in WWII, the Japanese invaded Attu and took civilian POWs: many of them were AmerIndians, and many of them died during their sojorn in Japan. Because of this, the US gov't removed many other Aleutian natives from their villages, with the usual horrific problems. Many of them never returned. I worked with a nurse whose Aunt was one of these.
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update: Attu Boy, written by one of the AmerIndians taken as a POW to Japan, is on line HERE.
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