Title Pulling back the curtain on China's maritime militia / Gregory B. Poling, Tabitha Grace Mallory, Harrison Préatt

Published Washington, DC : Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (IX, 77 pages) : color illustrations, color photographs Contents Executive summary. -- Introduction. -- Part 1: The history of China's maritime militia in the South China Sea. -- Part II: The modern militia. -- Part III: Government subsidies, funding, and support. -- Part IV: On-shore owners. -- Identifying militia vessels: a methodology. -- Conclusions. -- Appendices Summary Since completing the construction of its artificial island outposts in the Spratly Islands in 2016, China has shifted its focus toward asserting control over peacetime activity across the South China Sea. A key component of this shift has been the expansion of China's maritime militia--a force of vessels ostensibly engaged in commercial fishing but which in fact operate alongside Chinese law enforcement and military to achieve political objectives in disputed waters. Over the past year, the CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies conducted a study of China's maritime militia using remote sensing data and open-source Chinese language research. The resulting report features the most comprehensive study to date of the structure, subsidies, and ownership networks of China's maritime militia in the South China Sea, as well as a methodology for identifying Chinese maritime militia vessels and a list of over 120 militia vessels thus identified Notes "A report of the CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Intiative and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies." "November 2021." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-77) Notes "This report was made possible by funding from the Department of State's Global Engagement Center." Online resource; title from PDF title page (CSIS, viewed November 20, 2021) Subject Fisheries -- China -- Strategic aspects Fishing boats -- Finance -- Government policy -- China Security, International -- South China Sea Militia. Security, International. Strategic aspects of individual places. SUBJECT South China Sea -- Strategic aspects China -- Militia Subject China. South China Sea. Form Electronic book Author Mallory, Tabitha Grace, author Prétat, Harrison, author Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.), publisher.

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