Was this coordinated w Macr0n's recent statement abt fishing?New China is IUU overfishing innumeracy from DC think tank just dropped. Expect this to get repeated by MSM in coming days and I suppose more US coast guard deployments.
Last years lol estimate of PRC DWF fleet was 18000... now 32000 kek. It's hilarious to see PRC DWF inflation from 3000 in 2020 to 6000 to 18000 and now 32000 in 5 years. PRC ship building is incredible, but damn /s. PRC wild catch was like 12m in 2020... and 15m in 2024... but somehow catching that extra 3m required DWF to grow from 3000 to 32000. 950% / 29000 new boats to DWF fleet to catch... 25% / 3m tons more fish in 5 years. Truely lie flat behaviour from PRC fishermen.
Quick observation, can clearly see from empty perimeter in the heat map PRC fishing largely stays clear of SKR, JP EEZ. Reason DC thinktank "report" try to play up 12m hours in SKR is likely that hotspot just south of SKR peninsula, aka disputed Socotra rock EEZ. And I surmise majority of JP 1.5m "hours" are over disputed Senkaku EEZ. 4.5m TW hours, obviously PRC considers TW waters part of her territorial/EEZ waters. About another 1m hours from SCS EEZ disputes. AKA 18/21m hours are basically DC think tank doing customary China bad funny stats from disputed maritime delimitations. Incidentally using said delimitations to extrapolate 3000k PRC distant fishing fleet into 30k+ in 5 years... somehow.
PRC has largest absolute DWF fleet size, but per capita she's underfishing, especially relative to TW, SKR, JP, who're at only 30-50% aquaculture vs PRC 70-80%. Spain and Russia also up there. Also fraction of SKR/TW subsidies per capita, about on par with JP. For PRC's DWF fleet to match other top DWF fleet's capita fishing efforts, PRC would have to fish something like 3-9x+ more. Ecuador & Peru, two countries with ~1/30th population of PRC, together captures about about ~1/2 of PRC, who also has 1/2 the EEZ of these countries, which incidentally means PRC has to fish more in international waters.
Again, let's stress how absolutely batshit stupid these new numbers are:
AVG 400-800 tons per ship.
- SKR, ~500-700 DWF fleet, 300-400k metric tons per year.
- JP ~1200-1500 DWF fleet, 600-900k metric tons per year.
- TW ~1000 DWF fleet, 400-600k metric tons per year.
AVG 90 tons per ship.
- PRC... 32000 DWF fleet, 3000k metric tons per year.
Or... avg 400-800 tons per ship
- PRC ~3750-7500 DWF fleet.
PRC official report is like ~2700 in ~2020, add 25% for 25% by 2025 increase catch and you get ~3400. It's underestimation (and while PRC wanted to cap to 3000 in last 5 year plan), but it's underestimate by 100s, not over estimation by 10000s. Like tag on highest maritime militia estimates of ~10k, and it's still almost ~20k over.
Or just look at estimates of global seafood market growth... ~5% CAGR, ~+50B over past 5 years. Like 35B of that from PRC aquaculture growth. What's the 29000 new DWF doing? Global DWF size for major fishing nations is like 6000... so PRC adds... 500% that and somehow global fishing market grows by... 30%.
Placing bet estimate of PRC DWF will be 40k next year.
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Curious which lawyer is it? Is the lawyer like a member of "c1v1l r1ghts" grp local or abroad?Seems like Western media is using this as the latest, China cracking down on free expression narrative.
For the record, I did bother to do my research on Chinese social media to see what people were actually saying about this. In essence, contrary to the media narrative BL is only banned in China when it comes to portrayal in dramas and movies, when it comes to online literature there's tons of shit floating around and the government has bigger things to worry about than deleting them all. In this case, the writers who have been arrested are in fact writing stuff that's just straight up pornography. This activity is covered by Article 367 of the Chinese Criminal Code, which even contains a loophole in that besides for the purposes of science and education, stories with "artistic value" are allowed to some extent to potray erotica. So there are in fact ways to get around it, which is why vast majority of BL writers are not affected.
I haven't read what those arrested writers actually wrote since my Chinese isn't at the level of being able to read novels and plus they've been taken down by now. But netizens have said what they wrote does basically violate the law, since its just straight up smut and nothing else. In fact, go on to Weibo and XHS, vast majority of them actually do think their arrests are just routine enforcement of the law. However, what they do have issue with is the double standards in the enforcement of the law. You see, some of these writers have been sentence to 4-5 years in prison, but just some. Vast majority have gotten fines, though the fines range in the low thousands of US dollars which as we know for a lot of Chinese isn't a small sum of money. Meanwhile, recently there have been cases of domestic violence and animal abuse in China, where perps have gotten only 1-2 years in prison and a fine in the low hundreds of US dollars. So this is in fact what most netizens are mad about.