Translated by Claude, edited by Sinocism.com

First! "China Has Completed the Seabed Map of the Waters East of Taiwan Island"

首次！“我国已补齐台湾岛东部海底地图”

Source: Jike News / China Jilin Net (compiled from @Yuyuan Tantian 玉渊谭天 and Global Times) | 2026-06-10

On June 8, a Chinese maritime affairs special maritime-traffic law-enforcement flotilla arrived in the waters southeast of Taiwan Island. Tan Zhu [the @Yuyuan Tantian persona] noticed that the flotilla proceeded from waters close to the eastern part of Taiwan Island, heading east the whole way, sailing toward more distant reaches.

6月8日，中国海事海上交通专项执法编队，抵达台湾岛东南部海域。谭主注意到，编队从靠近台湾岛东部的水域，一路向东，驶向了更远的方向。

Professionals told Tan Zhu that recently, from the Coast Guard to local maritime safety administrations, from the East China Sea Navigation Safety Center to the East China Sea Rescue Bureau, multiple departments have acted in coordination, forming a "nearshore governance" model toward Taiwan Island.

专业人士告诉谭主，近期从海警到地方海事局，从东海航海保障中心到东海救助局，多部门联动，对台岛形成了“近海治理”的模式。

The significance of the "nearshore governance model" is twofold:

“近海治理模式”的意义有两重：

First, governance, the core of which is exercising the state's sovereign rights and jurisdiction in the maritime domain.

首先，是治理，核心是行使国家在海洋领域的主权权利与管辖权。

In the past, law-enforcement departments had also appeared in the waters east of Taiwan Island, but more often in the manner of accompanying exercises and drills, or pointwise Coast Guard patrols, and rarely with administrative jurisdictional actions by the Ministry of Transport's maritime affairs system announced separately and officially. On one hand, this was because the external deterrent strength of past exercises and drills was already considerable. On the other hand, it was because the hydrological conditions around Taiwan Island are relatively complex and surveying is relatively difficult.

过去执法部门也曾出现在台岛以东海域，但更多以演习演练伴随、海警点状巡航的方式出现，少以交通运输部海事系统的行政管辖行动单独官宣。一方面是因为过去开展演习演练的对外威慑力度已经较大了。另一方面也是因为台岛周边水文条件较为复杂，勘测难度较大。

Therefore, instigated by certain external forces, some voices abroad have hyped the claim that China's capabilities are insufficient to implement jurisdiction in the waters east of Taiwan Island, falsely asserting that the waters east of Taiwan Island are a geographic blank in China's maritime rights and interests claims.

因此，在一些外部势力的煊动下，外界部分声音炒作中国的能力不足以落实在台岛以东海域的管辖权，谬称台湾岛以东海域是中国海洋权益主张的地理空白。

Through repeated operational exploration, this time was clearly different.

在一次次行动探索中，这次明显不一样了。

By means of special maritime-traffic law enforcement, together with shipping safeguards and rescue, it brought the waters east of Taiwan Island into a verifiable grid of routine management, which is equivalent to responding externally to and dismantling those false narratives that treat the waters east of Taiwan Island as a "jurisdictional geographic blank."