The Chinese research ship returns to the Arctic Water – and it seems that Canada is watching it star-news.press/wp

It seems that the Canadian army and perhaps the Coast Guard kept signs of a tab on a Chinese research ship while returning to the Arctic Water off Alaska for the second year in a row.

Data collected by an independent and tracker researcher, Stefan Watkins, shows a Canadian Air Force surveillance plane that was flying near Xue Long (Snow Dragon) 2 as it left the Beer Strait on Sunday.

According to Watercins’ research, the plane moved to Ankarag, Alaska, from its base in Komox, British Columbia, on July 9. Four patrols have been conducted since then, including the latest ship that includes the ship, the first localized polar research ship in China.

Although the flying available to the audience that shows the CP-140 patrol road, the Ministry of National Defense will not confirm on Monday the existence of the plane and said it could not answer immediately questions about publishing.

The Air Force appears to have captured as the Canadian Coast Guard stopped.

The Coast Guard says it is monitoring illegal hunting

The Chinese snow ship, Shanghai, left on July 6 and passed near Japan a few days later, before heading north to Russian waters.

“The Xue Long 2 shadow along the way from Japan was CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier, which was unambiguously parallel to its crossing, and staying in international waters,” Watercins wrote at his last position.

Data, which refers to the Coast Guard, appear with Xue Long 2 to cross the BERING Strait, between Alaska and Russia.

When asked about the task of Sir Wilfred Loriere, the Coast Guard initially presented a cautious response and indicated that CBC news indicated a media statement on June 9, which said that the ship will conduct patrols in the seas in the North Pacific to counter “illegal and unorganized fish hunting.”

Then late in the two, the agency denied that it was Xue Long 2 shading.

She said that the stated task of the Coast Guard was the focus on “migratory methods of the main species such as Pacific.”

However, when ship tracking data is overcome with data available to the public on salmon deportation, a third of the last trip that included well -known salmon paths.

The ship’s helicopter was also scheduled to conduct patrols with Canadian fisheries officers in Japan “monitoring fishing vessels and partner countries to ensure compliance with international law,” according to the statement.

Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged to expand the reach of the security and capabilities of the Canadian Coast Guard as part of the liberal government’s plan to strengthen the country’s defenses. Ultimately, the federal government intends to integrate the Civil Agency, currently under the management of fisheries, to the capabilities of NATO in Canada, Kareni said last June, “the best insurance of our sovereignty and the expansion of marine monitoring.”

Last summer, the Royal Canadian Navy sent a frigate to monitor Xue Long 2 during its journey to the Arctic – a task that took over the Ministry of National Defense for more than a week to recognize it.

Military experts described the Chinese ice ship as a two-use ship-which indicates that it has a military or defensive capacity.

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Michael Bayers, the Arctic expert at the University of British Columbia, said he believed that Canadian officials need to be more close about the security threat they believe that the ship formed.

“One must already make an appropriate evaluation of the threat,” Bayers told CBC News in an interview.

Beers admitted that the Chinese ship can collect relevant data militarily, but questions whether the term “double use” depends on assumptions instead of evidence.

Relationships with China are still tense, and Payers said that the “potentially escalating” data on what the Chinese is – and do not do it in the Arctic, must be carefully examined.

After saying this, it completely supports the Coast Guard monitoring activities.

“We are very interested as a country around China as an emerging military power, and it is clear that China is supporting Russia strongly in its invasion of Ukraine,” said Payers.

“So yes, if a Chinese government ship is sailing anywhere near the United States or to Canada, then we will watch it.”