By Patrick Goodenough | April 5, 2021 | 11:23pm EDT
Sailors train onboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt during a previous deployment in the South China Sea. (Photo by Ted Aljibe/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – In a busy time for Indo-Pacific waters, recent days have seen a Chinese Navy carrier task group begin exercises in waters near Taiwan, Chinese and U.S. warships operate in different sectors of the contested South China Sea, and France invite the four nations of the Asia-Pacific “Quad” to join its annual exercise in the Bay of Bengal, east of India.
The surge of naval activity comes at a time of tensions over the deployment of large numbers of Chinese commercial fishing vessels to disputed waters in the South China Sea, in what critics see as an intimidatory “swarming” tactic designed to reinforce China’s maritime and territorial claims there.
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