Why China Is Building The World’s Largest “Coast Guard” Cutter

The bit that jumped out at me:

In other words, China’s new class of Coast Guard vessels are freakin’ huge. So big in fact that they will outsize America’s Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruisers by as much as 50%.

In short, why does China want “Coast Guard” ships the size of battlecruisers? Because they want to gobble up the South and East China Seas and everything in ’em.