The US Coast Guard said that a China-flagged research vessel was found on the banks of Alaska on Friday.
The Coast Guard reported on Saturday that Xue Long 2 was detected at North American Arctic about 290 knots a distance of 290 knots north of Alaska.
The Xue Long 2 is run by the Polar Research Institute in China.
Air Station Kodiaq’s US Coast Guard photo courtesy 
The ship was in the US extended continental shelf, or ECS, a part of the continental shelf that goes ahead of the coast of 200 miles from the coast. The ship was determined to cover a distance of 130 knots inside the ECS.
“The US has special rights for the protection and management of its ECS living and non-live resources,” Coast Guard said in its news release.
A coast guard C-130J Hercules, a long-range monitoring aircraft, responded to the ship. The Coast Guard also released a picture of the vessel.
The US Coast Guard Arctic District Commander, Rear Adam Little said, “With US Coast Guard, Partners and other agencies, alertly monitors and US waters monitors the activity of the foreign government’s vessel and protects sovereignty to secure regional integrity and protects sovereignty against malignant state activity.”
CBS News reached the Coast Guard for clarification on how it was working with the vessel.
Earlier this week, CBC news of Canada Informed The Canadian army was monitoring the movements of Xue Long 2 at Arctic.
In a statement to the CBC on Tuesday, Major Alexander Narine, a spokesman of the Joint Operations Center of the military said Xue Long 2 “was not currently in Canadian regional water.”
Narayane said that Canada was using a lockheed CP -140 Arora aircraft located outside Alaska to monitor the Chinese ship “actively”.
It comes after four Russian military aircraft Saw and tracked Flying near Alaska coast on Tuesday by North American Aerospace Defense Command.
The aircraft flew from a part of an international airspace called Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone. According to Narada, Alaska Adiz is considered part of the international airspace, defined as an area where the sovereign American airspace, but “requires a finished identity of all aircraft in the interest of national security.”
In January, American and Canadian fighter jets Were fried Norad said that Russian war planes were also seen in the Arctic. Russian war aircraft remained in the international airspace.
And in July 2024, America intercepted Many Chinese or Russian bombers near Alaska coast. At that time, an US defense official said it was first marked that the Russian and the Chinese aircraft jointly entered Alaska etc., and the first time Chinese H -6S has encroached from Alaska.
Ellenor Watson, Emily Maa Kazchor and Stephen Smith contributed to the report.
