Financial Times: QUAD will limit China’s illegal fishing activities

A Chinese fishing boat – Photo: NIKKEI ASIA

US President Joe Biden and leaders of QUAD member countries including Japan, India, and Australia will meet for a summit in Tokyo on May 24.

According to the Financial Times (FT), QUAD team leaders will announce an initiative to use connected satellite technology at two monitoring centers in India and Singapore to create a tracking system spanning from Indian Ocean to South Pacific.

According to the FT, the plan will help countries in the Indo-Pacific to monitor illegal fishing activities, even when their vessels have turned off their trackers. boat.

According to the British newspaper,This is an effort of QUAD, the other is the “Diamond Quartet”, in limiting China’s increasingly assertive actions in the Indo-Pacific waters, including fishing activities. illegal fishing in these waters.

The Chinese side has not yet commented on the information raised by the FT.

Reuters news agency reported that China’s regular activities of illegally entering the exclusive economic zone as well as illegal disputes with fishing vessels in a number of countries in the Indo-Pacific sea area. , has caused the ships of these countries to suffer quite a lot of damage in terms of economic damage and marine environment.

Charles Edel, Senior Advisor of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), said that China has severely depleted the global fish stocks and destroyed the traditional livelihoods of many countries in the region.

“So the new plan of the QUAD group is of great significance in monitoring, identifying and restricting China’s activities in the Indo-Pacific waters. Thereby bringing environmental benefits and security for the region,” added Mr. Edel.