When Nanvy Pelosi Was In Taiwan There Was A Confrontation Between A Chinese Fishing Fleet And The U.S. Coast Guard In The South - East Region Of The Pacific

FILE - In this photo made available by the U.S. Coast Guard, guardsmen from the cutter James, seen at background right, conduct a boarding of a fishing vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, on Aug. 4, 2022.  

VOA/AP: China Fishing Fleet Defied US in Standoff on High Seas 

This summer, as China fired missiles into the sea off Taiwan to protest House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island, a much different kind of geopolitical standoff was taking shape in another corner of the Pacific Ocean.

Thousands of miles away, a heavily-armed U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed up to a fleet of a few hundred Chinese squid-fishing boats not far from Ecuador's Galapagos Islands. 

Its mission: inspect the vessels for any signs of illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing. Boarding ships on the high seas is a perfectly legal if little-used tool available to any sea power as part of the collective effort to protect the oceans' threatened fish stocks. 

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WNU Editor: This story has been kept under wraps for over two months. So why the publicity now? The Chinese have responded .... US tries to throw dirty water on China hyping ‘illegal fishing’: Global Times editorial (Global Times).