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The following table provides a comparative overview Key observations include the daily deployment of of the daily vessel deployments by the PLAN around PLAN vessels, the activity of PLAN shipborne anti- Taiwan. [...] To prevent divides the eastern waters of Taiwan from the PLAN incursions in Taiwan's territorial waters, the northeastern waters. [...] The following table provides statistics on the and suggest that the PLAN is strategically positioning activities of PLAN destroyers and frigates, as itself in response to Taiwan's naval strategies and published by Japan's Ministry of Defense. [...] Second, in response to China's ASW activities, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States The increased activity of PLAN warships in the should enhance their coordination in these critical Yonaguni Channel this year likely stems from waters. [...] do not represent the positions of the National Defense University, the Ministry of National Defense, or the As previously noted, Taiwan's eastern waters are government of ROC (Taiwan).