Surging Second Sea Force: China’s Maritime Law Enforcement Forces, Capabilities, and Future in the Grey Zone and Beyond China’s rise in prominence is not new news. Neither is the growth of its maritime interests, nor the increasing capability of the PLAN. Keen China watchers will also be aware that the country’s maritime interests are protected, or enforced, by a broad range of bodies, institutions and ad hoc groupings that are organised in a way that is distinctly non-western. However, it can be quite startling to read, as one does in the opening paragraph of this article, that the grey-hulle…
