The United States released a report counting the "freedom of navigation operations" carried out last year, showing that the US Navy has carried out a total of 37 "freedom of navigation" in various waters around the world, in this way to "remind and warn" 26 countries and regions of the so-called "excessive territorial sea claims." Of these, four were related to China, but they also included countries such as India and Japan.
In other words, few people may notice that among these countries and regions that have been "beaten" by the US Navy, there seem to be very few countries and regions like China, which has been able to track, monitor, warn, and drive away US ships with its own naval vessels almost every time, and even some countries and regions have not protested against the so-called "freedom of navigation operations" of US warships. Actually, it's not that these countries and regions don't want to deal with US ships with their own warships, or that they don't dare to protest to the United States. The real reason lies in the fact that some countries and regions often have "no idea" about this, and it is not until the US military has carried out such an operation and made it public that they do not know that the US warship has "come"...
Why is that? Very simple. In more than 200 countries and regions around the world, there are very few players who can monitor their territorial waters and even further offshore exclusive economic zones in real time, and even fewer countries and regions like the Chinese Navy that can deploy patrol ships in the southeast and southeast seas for a long time. If we want to achieve this, we must not only have enough warships, but more importantly, we must have a complete set of reconnaissance and surveillance systems, such as space-based satellites, early warning aircraft, bases for island and reef posts, and land-based long-range radars. And fortunately, China has all these things~
