Why do fishermen from countries around China cross the border?

Because most of the areas around China in Qing Dynasty were either dependent countries of China or surrendered to China, China's territorial sea was quite vast at that time. By the time of the Republic of China, there were few sea areas actually controlled by China, and most neighboring countries were colonized by Japanese or western countries. After liberation, there was no navy in New China, and the Kuomintang was driven to Taiwan Province Province and struggled with the support of the United States. In the following 50 years, Southeast Asian countries became independent and the four little dragons in Asia rose. This has directly led to the desire of China's neighboring countries for their own territorial waters. At this time, China was trying to develop its economy and muddling along in disputed territory and territorial waters, and neighboring countries took the opportunity to occupy the territorial waters of the territory claimed by China. During this period, there were also small-scale wars such as the Xisha naval battle and the Sino-Indian border conflict. Although China won in the end, China didn't swear sovereignty or garrison in the disputed area at that time, which made China win, but it didn't achieve any effect. Until 20 1 1, the American strategy moved eastward, and Asian countries became tougher than before with the support of the United States. However, China has not responded well to the new situation, but insisted on shelving the disputes decades ago, which made countries more tough on China and made the situation in Asia more and more tense.

In other words, China believes that fishing in its own territorial waters is not recognized by other countries because China does not actually control the disputed waters. Other countries think that China is afraid of the United States and will not resort to force, so they keep tentatively arresting fishermen in China. It can also be seen from the map that many areas of China's territorial waters are far away from China and close to the starting country, which makes other countries insist on China fishermen's cross-border fishing.

In a word, the territorial sea proposed by China is only a theoretical territorial sea. In many areas, China has no actual control, and may not be able to control it for a long time. Therefore, if China fishermen go fishing in the theoretical territorial waters, but in fact the area is controlled by other countries, other countries will certainly not agree.