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Hazel Hsu

Hazel Hsu

Reporter at CommonWealth Magazine Group (天下雜誌集團) in Taiwan, covering education and contributing reporting on Taiwan's first island chain and Taiwan-China affairs.

Aug 25, 2026

6:58
What do they think about these encounters with Chinese Coast Guard?
7:03
Okay, may I just give a real-life scenario for our audience? So when I aboard the young captain's boat, Longde Shipyard was right beside us.
7:14
And as he showed us how the radar and AIS work, he told us that since 2022, seeing Chinese military drills along with government ships from China, Japan, and Taiwan all in the same water, so basically become a new normal for him.
7:33
And having fished out here for eight years, he put it this way.
7:38
At first, fishermen would still turn on their radar out of curiosity to look for them.
7:45
But over the last two years, everyone just completely gone numb to it.
7:51
And it is quite important because geographically, the Diaoyu Tai, known as Japan as Senkaku Island, sits about 100 nautical miles north of Suwa Port.

13 MINS LATER

21:17
Does he see this as a Taiwan problem or does he see this encroachment part of a broader test of the rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific?

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