China’s maritime security agencies in ‘power struggle’
We all know that China has its own way of doing things, but a new report from Australia's Lowy Institute states the country’s behaviour towards maritime security is becoming ‘unpredictable’.
The author of the report, Linda Jakobsen, says last year's restructuring of China’s maritime law enforcement agencies has led to power struggle between them.
The result is there are many more ‘actors’, a term she uses to describe the various agencies, that are all pushing forward differing maritime policies that benefit each group differently, both commercially and politically.
Jakobsen also believes that the People’s Liberation Army might start taking a
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