{"id":65910,"date":"2025-08-18T01:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/u-s-coast-guard-keeps-an-eye-on-chinese-research-flotilla-off-alaska\/65910\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T01:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:49:15","slug":"u-s-coast-guard-keeps-an-eye-on-chinese-research-flotilla-off-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/u-s-coast-guard-keeps-an-eye-on-chinese-research-flotilla-off-alaska\/65910\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Coast Guard Keeps an Eye on Chinese Research Flotilla off Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Coast Guard is still keeping an eye on five Chinese research vessels that are operating in the Arctic, in and near U.S. waters off Alaska.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday, Coast Guard Arctic District dispatched an HC-130J long range search aircraft to intercept and query the flotilla of Chinese government ships. The five Chinese vessels include the Polar Class 3 icebreaker <em>Xue Long 2,<\/em> seen previously on Arctic and Antarctic missions; the Soviet-built icebreaking tug <em>Zhong Shan Da Xue Ji Di<\/em> (flagged with the Liberian registry); the brand new ice-class research vessels <em>Ji Di<\/em> and <em>Tan Suo San Hao, <\/em>both delivered in the last year; and<em> Shen Hai Yi Hao,<\/em> a conventional research vessel built to carry a deep-diving submersible. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Tan Suo San Hao (USCG)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/media\/images\/article\/Photos\/Navy_Govt_CoastGuard\/Zhong-Shan-Da-Xue-Ji-Di-Alaska-2025-USCG.jfif\" style=\"width:1000px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Zhong Shan Da Xue Ji Di (USCG)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/media\/images\/article\/Photos\/Navy_Govt_CoastGuard\/Shen-Hai-Yi-Hao-Alaska-2025-USCG.jfif\" style=\"width:862px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Shen Hai Yi Hao (USCG)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Chinese research presence in Alaska&#039;s far north is unprecedented, and comes amidst heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing. At about the same time as the Chinese presence intensified off Alaska, two U.S. warships conducted a freedom of navigation operation near Scarborough Shoal, a contested, Chinese-occupied reef in the South China Sea.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard has more resources in Alaska than it did a few months ago. Bollinger&#039;s 59th and latest Fast Response Cutter, USCGC <em>Earl Cunningham,<\/em> was commissioned last week and will be based out of Kodiak, freeing up larger vessel assets for long-distance patrols. The Coast Guard&#039;s new interim icebreaker, USCGC <em>Storis <\/em>(ex name <em>Aiviq<\/em>), is currently in Seward and is expected to head further north soon, in the direction of the Chinese research flotilla.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The U.S. Coast Guard is still keeping an eye on five Chinese research vessels that are operating in the Arctic, in and near U.S. waters off Alaska.&nbsp; Last Wednesday, Coast Guard Arctic District dispatched an HC-130J long range search aircraft to intercept and query the flotilla of Chinese government ships. The five Chinese vessels &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[551,777,1579,3618,5572,1580,1685,515,21986],"class_list":["post-65910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-alaska","tag-chinese","tag-coast","tag-eye","tag-flotilla","tag-guard","tag-research","tag-u-s","tag-xue-long-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/65911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}