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China’s new flash point with US allies is a hot spot for spying
One key problem is that three unilateral maritime boundaries near the island of Baengnyeong remain disputed, opening the door for potential conflict
Bloomberg
Ever since fighting ended in the Korean War nearly seven decades ago, Baengnyeong has been a key location for US allies in Seoul to spy on North Korea. Now the island is on China’s radar.
China spooked South Korea in December last year by sending a warship past a self-imposed boundary near the island to probe the limits of the nation’s claims in the Yellow Sea. The move, described as rare by South Korean lawmakers, came as China’s military bolstered its presence in the disputed waters.
May 5, 2021
Ever since fighting ended in the Korean War nearly seven decades ago, Baengnyeong has been a key location for Seoul to spy on North Korea. Yet now the island is on China’s radar.
China spooked South Korea in December by sending a warship past a self-imposed boundary near the island to probe the limits of the country’s claims in the Yellow Sea. The move, described as rare by South Korean lawmakers, comes as China’s military bolsters its presence in the disputed waters.
Roughly 5,000 residents on Baengnyeong have also become wary of an influx of Chinese fishing boats near the island, which sits in a strategic location perpendicular to the Bohai Strait the main waterway providing access to Beijing. In years past the island’s quartzite beach one of a handful of natural runways in the world was used for sorties in the Korean War.
Amid China-US Maritime Tension, Chinese Rear Admiral Is Sacked
Song Xue, a rear admiral and deputy chief of staff of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy was removed from his post as a delegate to the regime’s rubber-stamp legislature and suspected of “serious violation of discipline and law,” according to a notice from the Standing Committee of the legislature on April 29.
According to an article by the Beijing Youth Daily WeChat official account “Politics and Insights,” the notice stated that in the past six years, Song was the first high-ranking navy general sacked after Cheng Jie, deputy chief of staff of the North Sea Fleet of the Navy, who was put under investigation in 2015.