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US Coast Guard on high alert as Chinese warships spotted off Alaska       

US Coast Guard on high alert as Chinese warships spotted off Alaska (msn.com)     

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中国海军在阿拉斯加“航行自由行动”，四艘军舰进入阿留申群岛水域; 为保护北极航线，此类行动或将变成常态   

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[Alice Alicia]

Have a taste of their own medicine.

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The US shouldn't be too worried if the Chinese vessels were doing the right thing under the rules of UNCLOS which China has ratified and the US has not because the US did not agree to Part IV of UNCLOS, fearing losing Hawaii and Guam.

According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), every state has the right to establish its territorial sea up to a limit of 12 nautical miles from its baselines, and foreign ships have the right of innocent passage through the territorial sea. There is also a contiguous zone, which may not extend beyond 24 nautical miles from where the territorial sea is measured, and coastal states may exercise controls to prevent infringement of its customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws and regulations within its territory or territorial sea.

Coastal states also have an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) that shall not extend beyond 200 nautical miles from where the territorial sea is measured, within which it has sovereign rights of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources of the seabed, waters above the seabed, and the subsoil, while other states have freedom of navigation and overflight, and the laying of submarine cables and pipelines. Beyond the EEZs are the open seas, or what the UNCLOS refers to as high seas.

According to the MSN enclosed by TS, it clearly said

The Coast Guard said the Chinese vessels were transiting in international waters but still inside the US Exclusive Economic Zone, which extends 200 nautical miles from the US shoreline.