{"id":51352,"date":"2025-11-20T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=51352"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:11:07","slug":"chinese-research-flotilla-in-the-bering-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/chinesische-forschungs-flottille-in-der-beringsee\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese \"research flotilla\" in the Bering Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"302\" data-end=\"482\"><strong data-start=\"302\" data-end=\"348\">Chinese flotilla in the Bering Strait:<\/strong> In mid-August, five Chinese research vessels operated near Alaska for the first time - alerting the US Navy and US Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51356\" style=\"width: 318px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51356\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3a-chv-Xuelong_2-Polar-Research-Institute-of-China-300x168.jpeg\" alt=\"Xue Long 2, Photo: Polar Research Institute China\" width=\"318\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3a-chv-Xuelong_2-Polar-Research-Institute-of-China-300x168.jpeg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3a-chv-Xuelong_2-Polar-Research-Institute-of-China-1024x574.jpeg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3a-chv-Xuelong_2-Polar-Research-Institute-of-China-768x431.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3a-chv-Xuelong_2-Polar-Research-Institute-of-China-18x10.jpeg 18w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3a-chv-Xuelong_2-Polar-Research-Institute-of-China.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xue Long 2, Photo: Polar Research Institute China<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-start=\"484\" data-end=\"993\">The Bering Strait is barely 70 kilometres wide - between the almost uninhabited Russian Naukan and the American Wales in Alaska, which has a small airfield and the huts of the local Native community. In the middle of this strait lie the Diomedes Islands: The western Great Diomedes, which belongs to Russia, is separated from the Lesser Diomedes, which already belongs to Alaska, by only around two kilometres of ice sheet. The Bering Sea extends to the south and the Chukchi Sea to the north.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"995\" data-end=\"1588\">It was precisely in this geographically and geopolitically sensitive area that a Chinese flotilla appeared in mid-August - more numerous than ever before. The convoy was led by the first icebreaker built entirely in China <strong data-start=\"1219\" data-end=\"1233\">Xue Long 2<\/strong>(\"Snow Dragon\", 132 metres, 14,300 tonnes, ice class 3), the flagship of the still young Chinese ice fleet. It was accompanied by a Soviet ice tug, a classic research vessel with a deep-diving capsule and the two new Arctic research platforms <strong data-start=\"1511\" data-end=\"1520\">Ji Di<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1525\" data-end=\"1544\">Tan Suo San Hao<\/strong>both of whom have only been in service for a few months.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1590\" data-end=\"1963\">The US Coast Guard had recently increased its surveillance capacities in North Alaska - both on the water and in the air. It has also deployed the newly commissioned 59th Fast Response Cutter <strong data-start=\"1792\" data-end=\"1811\">Earl Cunningham<\/strong> and the icebreaker <strong data-start=\"1833\" data-end=\"1843\">Storis<\/strong> into the waters of the 49th US state to closely monitor Chinese activities in the Bering Strait.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinesische Flottille in der Beringstra\u00dfe: Mitte August operierten erstmals f\u00fcnf chinesische Forschungsschiffe nahe Alaska \u2013 und alarmierten damit US Navy und US Coast Guard. Die Beringstra\u00dfe ist kaum 70 Kilometer breit \u2013 zwischen dem nahezu unbesiedelten russischen Naukan und dem amerikanischen Wales in Alaska, das \u00fcber ein kleines Flugfeld und die H\u00fctten der lokalen Native-Community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,32],"tags":[11160,11161,11157,11163,11158,11162,1040,11159],"class_list":["post-51352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt","category-magazin","tag-arktis-praesenz-china","tag-arktische-sicherheitslage","tag-beringstrasse","tag-china-eisflotte","tag-chinesische-forschungsschiffe","tag-maritime-ueberwachung-alaska","tag-us-coast-guard","tag-xue-long-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51357,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51352\/revisions\/51357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}