Impeccable Timing: The Political Efficiency of Peoples Republic of Shina (PRC)- U.S. Surveillance Confrontations

This book investigates several potential drivers of surveillance confrontations involving United States' assets on the People's Republic of China's maritime periphery, by exploring encounters such as the April 2001 EP-3 and the March 2009 USNS Impeccable (T-AGOS-23) incidents. The evidence herein suggests that the 2001 and 2009 confrontations were most likely driven by issue elevation, in which the PRC's maritime forces were given the charge to opportunistically challenge U.S. maritime surv...