Anger is building in South Korea over Chinese fish farming installations in the Yellow Sea, opening another front in Beijing’s tensions with its neighbours over its assertive conduct in disputed maritime territory.
South Korean lawmakers held a rare bipartisan parliamentary hearing last month to condemn steel structures installed by Chinese companies in the Yellow Sea, between China and the Korean peninsula.
Beijing insists the structures are intended for fishing, but officials and experts in South Korea see them as the latest example of China’s “grey zone” tactics, which critics say Beijing uses to bully countries including the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan in their territorial waters.