The Initial Round of "Why in the Bering Sea" Has Begun

My armchair assessment is a similar one: Because operating near US home waters (don't scoff, Alaska is a state) near the Aleutian Islands is the best available allegory, from the Chinese perspective, for US forces operating inside the first island chain. In other words, they are demonstrating that they can.

Now the question is what does that mean for the US? Particularly for those US forces that pay the most frequent visits to these remote pieces of US sovereign territory, the US Coast Guard?

http://blog.usni.org/2015/09/08/the-rise-of-chinas-navy