CCP Weaponizes Its Coast Guard to Police Maritime Disputes

Commentary The incursion of China’s seafaring vessels into the waters surrounding the Philippines and Taiwan has attracted global attention as the world’s largest Coast Guard. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) employs a gray zone strategy and leverages the China Coast Guard (CCG) to carry out the maritime law-enforcement activities that dominate the South China Sea, along with fishing boats, fishery patrol vessels, and People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy warships, as the CCP exerts its claims and postures for dominance. This gray zone strategy is a concept rooted in its unrestricted warfare doctrine that, on multiple occasions, has sparked heated territorial disputes....