December 29, 2025

Zhu Anqing, spokesperson of the East Sea Bureau, the China Coast Guard (CCG), said that on Monday, the Fujian Coast Guard organized task forces to carry out law enforcement patrol in the waters surrounding the Taiwan island, conducting drills on subjects of joint protection of fishing activities, identification and verification, as well as interception and detention operations against unwarranted vessels. The drills tested capabilities of effective jurisdiction and efficient law enforcement. The CCG then released an illustration of its vessel task forces' law enforcement patrol off Taiwan island in accordance with the one-China principle.

The illustration shows that the CCG's 1302 Formation, 1306 Formation, 2203 Formation, and 2204 Formation weaved a tight blockade around the northern, eastern, southern, and southwestern areas of the island of Taiwan with red mooring lines and elegant Chinese knots, effectively encircling it.

It is a rope that encircles the province of Taiwan, tying a Chinese knot and binding the shared lineage and securing the reunification. The Global Times learned that the illustration released by the CCG takes the Chinese knot and mooring rope as its central symbols, intertwining the sovereignty narrative that "Taiwan is a province of China" with the cultural symbolism of "peace in the Taiwan Straits and reunification of the homeland." This has evoked an emotional resonance, encapsulated in the phrase, "One rope encircles the province, one knot reunifies China."

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