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China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities
valuable for reacting to specific threats in China's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and
slightly beyond.119
As noted in the previous section, these ships eventually may be replaced by Type 056 corvettes.
Coast Guard Cutters
China in 2013 consolidated four of its five maritime law enforcement (MLE) agencies into a new
China Coast Guard (CCG). China usually uses CCG ships, rather than PLAN ships, to assert and
defend its maritime territorial claims and fishing interests in the South China Sea and East China
Sea, although PLAN ships are available as backup forces. While China's CCG ships are often
unarmed or lightly armed, they can nevertheless be effective in confrontations with unarmed
fishing vessels or other ships. Figure 13 shows a picture of a CCG ship.
Figure 13. China Coast Guard ShipSource: Picture accompanying Jeff. W. Benson, "Clash for Naval Power in the Asia Pacific," USNI News
(http://news.usni.org), November 25, 2013, accessed May 23, 2014.
China is rapidly modernizing its inventory of CCG ships, and some of China's newest CCG ships
are relatively large.120 DOD states that
The CCG is responsible for a wide range of missions, including enforcement of China's
sovereignty claims, anti-smuggling, surveillance, protection of fisheries resources, and
general law enforcement. China primarily uses civilian maritime law enforcement
agencies in maritime disputes, and employs the PLAN in an overwatch capacity in case
of escalation.
119 2015 ONI Report, p. 17.
120 See, for example, Ryan Martinson, "Power to the Provinces: The Devolution of China's Maritime Rights
Protection," China Brief (http://www.jamestown.org/programs/chinabrief), September 10, 2014.Congressional Research Service
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