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A fishing boat is seen from an aircraft of the Ecuadorian navy after a fishing fleet of mostly Chinese-flagged ships was detected in an international corridor that borders the Galapagos Islands’ exclusive economic zone, in the Pacific Ocean August 7, 2020. Picture taken August 7, 2020. REUTERS/Santiago Arcos
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China is in the news again, and once again over controversial reasons. Discovery of a vast fleet of Chinese fishing vessels just outside the Galapagos Island’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) stirred outrage both in Ecuador and overseas...Data published by HawkEye 360, a small sat company specializing in RF geo-analytics, on September 30 reveals that the Chinese vessels deactivated their Automatic Identification System (AIS) tracking system hundreds of times to “go dark”. 

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