【英文】CSIS报告：解开中国海上民兵的神秘面纱（87页）

英文研究报告 2021年12月03日 06:59 管理员

Te registered owner of a vessel is responsible for funding its operations, either through direct management of its maintenance and operations or through contractual agreement with another party. Te owners of militia vessels are thus inherently responsible for their operations in the South China Sea—including those that violate international law. Te characteristics of militia vessel ownership structures also ofer important insight into the maritime militia’s organization and operations. Links between vessel owners and Chinese government entities may also play a useful role in identifying militia vessels, though this report’s fndings suggest that these should only serve as supporting indicators and that, in most cases, they are not sufcient to determine whether a vessel is or is not a part of the maritime militia.

Further details on the indicators used to identify militia vessels in this report are presented in the Methodology section. Of the 169 militia and likely militia vessels analyzed, the registered owners of 96 were found using publicly available information such as provincial fshing vessel oil subsidy lists, corporate lawsuits, and references in media.110 Te owners of 40 of these vessels are natural persons, whom this study considers likely to be the ultimate directors and benefciaries of at-sea activity. Te owners of the remaining 56 vessels for which ownership information was found are legal entities, such as companies or fshing cooperatives. Since these legal entity owners are themselves subordinate to corporate networks of shareholders and directors, Chinese corporate registry documents were used to identify individuals who hold a majority stake in the entity serving as a vessel’s registered owner or who are the majority stakeholders of a series of corporate entities that ultimately own the vessel.