Inside the U.S. Coast Guard's Aleutian encounter with China's military

The Chinese warships weren't showing up on civilian radar.

But the American commercial fishing fleet could still tell that something strange was happening in the Aleutian Islands on July 6 and 7.

Crew on the fishing vessels picked out a U.S. Coast Guard cutter, the Kimball, steaming through the area at 21 knots, or nearly 25 miles an hour.

It turned out the Kimball was in hot pursuit of four Chinese ships, including a destroyer and a guided-missile cruiser.

When the Coast Guard cutter intercepted the Chinese vessels, someone onboard called out on Channel 16, the international frequency used fo...

 

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