Military exercises and verbal threats from Beijing have intensified in recent months. Now the next escalation: a Taiwanese fishing boat was seized by the Chinese coast guard on Tuesday near the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen Islands.
Chinese officials boarded the boat and brought it to a Chinese port on Tuesday night (local time), the Taiwanese coast guard said Wednesday. Taiwan sent its own coast guard ships to assist and asked China to release the fishing boat. However, the Chinese ships responded that they should not interfere.
Mainly Indonesian guest workers on board
A Taiwanese official with knowledge of the case said the Taiwanese boat entered Chinese waters and was fishing during China’s closed season. Taiwan now hopes to release the fishermen — mostly Indonesian migrant workers — as soon as possible.
Fishing boats are seized time and time again – on both sides. But usually the cases are suspended with the payment of fines for “illegal fishing”.
Source: Krone
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