Wednesday, February 24, 2021

CIMSEC: Friends from Afar: U.S. and South Korea Coast Guards Help South America Combat IUU Fishing

 

 

"Friends from Afar: U.S. and South Korea Coast Guards Help South America Combat IUU Fishing"

Wilder Alejandro Sanchez

The Southern Tide

Center for International Maritime Security

February 24, 2021

Originally published: https://cimsec.org/friends-from-afar-u-s-and-south-korea-coast-guards-help-south-america-combat-iuu-fishing/

 

The Southern Tide

Written by Wilder Alejandro Sanchez, The Southern Tide addresses maritime security issues throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. It discusses the challenges regional navies face including limited defense budgets, inter-state tensions, and transnational crimes. It also examines how these challenges influence current and future defense strategies, platform acquisitions, and relations with global powers.

“We focus on partnerships…Our partners want to work with us. They want the advantage of the United States education, training, exercises and military equipment. It’s the best in the world. And so it’s up to us to deliver that in a way that’s relevant and also provides a return on investment for American taxpayer. So that is our focus.” –Navy Adm. Craig S. Faller, commander of U.S. Southern Command, before the Senate Armed Services Committee July 9, 2019.

By Wilder Alejandro Sanchez

Introduction

A deployment by the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Stone (WMSL-758) to the South Atlantic, and two coast guard patrol vessels donated by the Korea Coast Guard (KCG) to the Ecuadorian Navy, are some of the latest initiatives by South America’s partners to help regional navies combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. As large, extra-hemispheric fishing fleets continue to actively operate close to South American waters, often crossing into the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) of regional states, navies require additional ships and the physical presence of partner navies to combat these crimes. In the vast waters of the South Pacific and South Atlantic, every ship counts.

 

 

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Friday, February 19, 2021

Geopolitical Monitor: What Can Biden Do about the Uyghur Genocide?

 

"What Can Biden Do about the Uyghur Genocide?"

Wilder Alejandro Sanchez

Opinion

Geopolitical Monitor

19 February, 2021

Originally published: https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/what-can-the-biden-administration-do-about-human-rights-violations-in-xinjiang/

 Among the many foreign policy issues that the new Joseph Biden administration has to address, the ongoing violation of the human rights of hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs in Xinjiang (East Turkistan), will have to be a top priority. The US government has a complex and complicated relationship with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and the situation will not improve as long as the Chinese government continues its repression of Uyghurs, and other minorities.

 Governments make their moves

The adjectives used by US authorities to describe the situation have become particularly grave in the first couple of months of the new year. Case in point, on his last day in office, then-US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used the term “genocide” to describe what is happening in Xinjiang/East Turkistan. “China is committing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, China, targeting Uighur Muslims and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups,” the now former senior official said in a 19 January tweet.


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Monday, February 15, 2021

Shephard Media: PREMIUM: Chile picks design partner for Escotillón IV

 

"PREMIUM: Chile picks design partner for Escotillón IV"

Wilder Alejandro Sanchez

Naval Warfare

Shephard Media 

15 February 2021

Originally published: https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/naval-warfare/premium-chile-picks-design-partner-escotillon-iv/

 

ASMAR and Vard Marine team up to construct new Chilean transport vessels.

An amphibious and military transport vessel will be designed by Canada-based Vard Marine for the Chilean Navy, under the Escotillón IV programme to modernise fleet transport operations.

The new vessels will be based on existing Vard Series 7 designs and will be adapted to the specific requirements of the Chilean ...

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Thursday, February 4, 2021

Book Chapter: Moldova's Transnistria Question: is the term 'frozen conflict' still applicable?

 


 "Moldova's Transnistria Question: Is the term 'frozen conflict' still applicable?"

Wilder Alejandro Sanchez and Lucia Scripcari 

Separatism and Regionalism in Modern Europe

Chris Kostov (editor)

Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin (2020)

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Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Shephard: "Ecuador builds for the future"

 

"Ecuador builds for the future"

Wilder Alejandro Sanchez

Shephard Media

3 February, 2021

Originally published: https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/naval-warfare/premium-ecuador-builds-future/

Shipyard ASTINAVE is expanding its facilities as it builds a new multi-purpose vessel for the Ecuadorian Navy, but the project has been hampered by COVID-related delays and its overall cost is unclear.

As Ecuador approaches a general election on 7 February which will influence the future direction of defence procurement in the South American country, state-run shipyard ASTINAVE is expanding its facilities to carry out new shipbuilding projects.

The main Planta Centro yard is being adapted for construction of an 80m-long multi-purpose ...

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