China’s Fishing Ban & Asia’s Cycle of Maritime Clashes

Each year, China’s unilaterally decreed fishing moratorium sparks anger among its neighbors and feeds into the cycle of tensions between regional law enforcement and fishing fleets. Sometimes-violent incidents are a year-round problem between Chinese fishermen and their neighbors from South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, but the fishing ban introduces a unique set of dynamics. The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative charts the annual pattern of clashes around the fishing industry in this geopolitical hotspot. https://amti.csis.org/fishing-troubled-waters/