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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The United States (USA) recently doubled its legal authority (UU) on unregulated and unreported illegal fishing.
US National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said this law would deploy the US Coast Guard to the Indo-Pacific region to monitor China’s illegal fishing.
Reporting from South China Morning Mail (SCMP)David Feith, Deputy Under Secretary for Regional Policy and Security for East Asia and the Pacific, said that to implement this law, Washington would expand the number of “shipping” agreements the US Coast Guard has with countries in Asia and the Pacific.
“This is to help counter China’s ‘aggressive behavior’ on the high seas and sovereign waters of other countries,” the media quoted the US statement as saying on Saturday (11/20/2020).
Under the “shippers” agreement codified in this latest maritime law, the authorities of one country can board police boats or aircraft from another country while on patrol. Where state authorities can allow other countries to take coercive action on their behalf.
However, according to analysts, this US stance is somewhat undesirable for the South China Sea (SCS) claimants. Jay L. Batongbacal, director of the Institute of Maritime Affairs and Maritime Law at the University of the Philippines, said Manila under the chairmanship of Rodrigo Duterto would not welcome joint implementation.
“But (the Philippines) can be content to share information about its activities at sea, and for at least the last two or three years the government, especially the fisheries bureau, has made use of information available from the US. On overseas fishing activities in the Exclusive Economic Zone. Philippines (EEZ), “he was quoted as saying on Friday (11/20/2020).
So far, China, which has the largest fishing fleet in the world, is the main perpetrator of illegal fishing. Their boats are more actively paced back and forth in the LCS.
This created tension with many Asian countries and pushed the United States under the pretext of freedom of navigation.
According to data from the Environmental Justice Foundation, China has almost 17,000 long-distance fishing boats. At least 183 vessels from this fleet are suspected of being involved in illegal fishing.
This latest American attack was expected. Bloomberg and Axios as written by Business Insider wrote that President Donald John Trump is indeed planning a show of force with China before resigning from his number one spot in January 2021.
According to the report, Trump is likely to attack China with additional sanctions on party offices and institutions involved in China’s crackdown in Hong Kong. And those involved in the persecution of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.
Trump will also fight illegal fishing and provide instructions to protect American tech companies from Chinese exploitation. This week, an editorial in Chinese state media Global Times said the report hinted that Trump was likely to unleash “the utmost insanity” against Beijing.
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