Strategic Situational Awareness in the South China Sea: Satellites Capture the Same Frame as Chinese and American Ships

December 22, the U.S. Navy’s McCain stormed the waters adjacent to the Spratly Islands and Reef, and the Southern Theater Command of the People’s Liberation Army organized naval and air forces to warn her to drive her away.

The satellite captured a rare picture of the suspected PLA Type 054A frigate tracking and monitoring the missile destroyer McCain in the northeast waters of the Spratly Islands.

It can be seen that before McCain entered the waters of the Spratly Islands, the People’s Liberation Army had launched corresponding measures, and the U.S. military’s operation should have been monitored throughout the whole process