The militia boat was on the eastern coast of Taiwan for the first time: Beijing was pushing the "blocking practice" out of the flower lotion.

In the face of pressure from the Chinese grey area, the most dangerous change in Taiwan is often not more ships, but rather the beginning of a ship in a position that has not been seen before.

The latest maritime surveillance reports indicate that China's sea militia fishing vessel, “Sang Fu Ding Fish”, was found off the Taiwan florist in August this year. According to the Taiwan side, this was the first time that a Chinese naval militia boat had been confirmed as being in the area of movement into Taiwan ' s eastern shore.

More importantly, it does not appear alone. There are Chinese naval and research vessels in the vicinity.

The East Coast was considered deep and now becomes the front line

The West Bank of Taiwan is directly facing mainland China and has long been the most intense direction of military aircraft, ships and naval police activity. The eastern coast, which is oriented towards the Pacific, is an important area for Taiwan to preserve its naval and air capabilities, receive external supplies and maintain its routes.

Militia vessels were first identified off the flower lotus, which means that the grey area of operations in Beijing is crossing the traditional positive stress zone.

The special features of the Chinese maritime militia are that it is a civilian fishing vessel that can undertake surveillance, declaration, tracking and pressure at sea outside the maritime police and navy.

This ambiguity allows Beijing to move forward with the border while at the same time putting the responsibility for escalation on the other side.

This discovery was not made by the military, but by a civilian surveillance aircraft in Taiwan

The ship was found by the Taiwan Civil Company Apex Aviation. The company used a P-2012 aircraft equipped with American synthetic aperture radar to carry out maritime surveillance.

This is also a new change in Taiwan’s security: Beijing has spread military pressure to non-traditional forces such as the maritime police, the militia, and research ships, while Taiwan has begun to include civilian aviation, commercial radar and social resilience systems in surveillance.

Both parties are expanding competition from the regular army to society at large and to networks of ocean activities.

What Beijing wants to change is Taiwan's definition of “normal”

If a militia ship is present outside the flowered water today, and will appear tomorrow, and in six months' time, it will become “daily” when the original “unusual” becomes a force.

This is at the heart of Xi's grey zone strategy: there is no need to declare a blockade, and it can also be tested with a continuous presence of routes, speed of response and law enforcement borders.

Once this normalized pressure has been incorporated into the eastern coast of Taiwan, what really changes is not the location of a ship, but rather that Beijing has become familiar with where it can be, tracked and created what is called “the jurisdictional fact” at the time of the future crisis.

The blockade does not necessarily begin on the day when it is declared. It may also start with a vessel that appears to be a “vessel vessel”.