Chinese Spy Ship Approaches Sensitive Waters

A Chinese spy ship of the class frequently used to monitor United States and allied military exercises in the Pacific approached Taiwan’s waters on Tuesday before being expelled by the island’s navy, according to an open-source report. A Type 815A electronic surveillance vessel of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy sailed southwards past Taiwan’s eastern port of Suao and came within 24 nautical miles of the coast, said plane and ship spotting group Taiwan ADIZ. Photographs supplied to Newsweek showed the silhouette of a Type 815A spy ship—distinguishable by the flat top of its front radome—as well as a Taiwan…