China’s Expanding Control Over Scarborough Shoal
“SeaLight’s Anna van Amerongen produced visualizations using this data to show heat maps of both years in sequence. We tracked 57 CCG and militia ships producing around 724,000 total AIS broadcasts near Scarborough Shoal from May 2023 – April 2024. The result was a relatively tight area of focused activity very near the shoal…”
“Over the following 12 months, by contrast, we see the area of intense activity expanded dramatically, with 78 ships and 1,573,000 broadcasts–or more than double the total signals broadcast over the previous period. We also see China’s ships ranging in all directions, but especially to the east toward the Philippine mainland…”
https://www.sealight.live/posts/china-s-expanding-control-over-scarborough-shoal