Indonesia promises to ‘drive out’ Chinese intruders in its EEZ
In early 2020 China continued its South China Sea antics with a mass intrusion by dozens of fishing boats escorted by two China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels and a fishery patrol vessel into waters 130nm north of the Natuna Islands, and thus within the EEZ of Indonesia.
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