Pretty much all shipping is “a shadow fleet” if being flagged in Panama is a factor, basically every large ocean going vessel is flagged in Panama, Liberia, or a couple other nations. On paper, Panama has one of the largest merchant fleets in the world!
I think its even more basic than that. "Shadow fleet" basically refers to any ship not insured through western insurers(and thus subject to pressure), thats all there is to this whole bs.
Piracy is back in town
This can give China plenty ideas for what to do with Taiwan, bring this up when the Americans complain as China blockades the island from any oil and weapons
This is how the US rogue state has always operated. You either have the military power to secure your resources, or the US swoops in and takes them. If China wants to freely trade with Latin America, they will have to have military infrastructure in there. If they try to utilize their manufacturing capacity as leverage, they will force the US to go elsewhere just like the US forced them to develop domestic solutions. As Brian Berletic said, the Russian tankers randomly blowing up on the high seas were merely a beta-tester to see how much they can get away with. Now it has spilled to China and will only get worse.
