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SeaLight
@SeaLightFound
Registered non-profit lighting up the maritime gray zone. Transparency & monitoring in the Indo-Pacific & beyond. Founder/Director: @gordianknotray
Jan 12 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/🇨🇳#CHINA-🇻🇳#VIETNAM: PRC maritime militia buildup in the Paracel Islands
It's not just the rhetoric around the Paracel Islands that has been increasing. China moved 7 maritime militia ships to the disputed archipelago on 2 December & is now involving them in its sovereignty assertion patrols off the central Vietnam coast. [🧵1/5]Image 2/There's a long history of the 🇨🇳#China Coast Guard asserting Beijing's sovereignty off 🇻🇳#Vietnam's central coast (west of the Paracels) & Vietnam countering with its own maritime militia. What's new is the direct involvement of China's maritime militia in these ops. [🧵2/5] Image
Jan 6 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
1/🚨"We brought specific, verifiable data--Golden Tiger brought only vague & unsubstantiated counter-claims."
-- Statement from @SeaLightFound Director @GordianKnotRay in response to Golden Tiger Shipping Agencies, Inc. (GTSAI)'s letter disputing our report, "The Hydra of Manila Bay."
Full response follows in thread below: [🧵1/10]Image 2/GTSAI's letter claims that SeaLight's report is "unsupported by technical or factual evidence." THIS IS DEMONSTRABLY FALSE. Our report, which is public (), provides specific ship tracks, MMSIs, timestamps, coordinates & IMO records. [🧵2/10]sealight.live/posts/the-hydr…