Giant Chinese Coast Guard Ship Threatens the Region
With the deployment of two of the world's largest coast guard ships, China could change the balance of power in the South China Sea and East China Sea, Asian Sentinel reported.
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According to the Asian Sentinel website, the Haijing 2901 and Haijing 3901 ships have a displacement of 10,000 tons; and can be even larger when fully equipped.
This figure shows that the two Chinese ships are larger than the US Navy's Ticonderoga-class cruisers and Japan's largest coast guard ship, the Shikishima, with a displacement of 6,500 tons.
Meanwhile, the largest patrol vessel belonging to a coast guard force in Southeast Asia is Vietnam's DN2000, with a displacement of 2,500 tons.
The People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, has claimed that the country’s powerful new coast guard ship can sink a 9,000-ton vessel without sustaining a single loss. If true, this would pose a potential threat to conventional US and Japanese naval vessels.
The two Chinese ships may not be heavily armed, as released images show they lack gun turrets.
However, it is not the weapons but the size that creates the terrible power of these ships, especially in the context that "ship ramming" has long been a tactic used in territorial disputes in the East Sea and the East China Sea./.
According to VNE
