The tyrannous reign of China's fishing mafia in the western Pacific is all set to end, because the US is all set to deploy its coast guard in the region. The United States is opening up another front against the people's Republic of China, and this time the US coast guard is coming to take on China's fishing mafia. With this, the US plans to take on the Chinese maritime militia masquerading as innocuous fishing fleets and to also check Beijing's exploitative fishing ambitions in the region. White House National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien has himself announced that the US coast guard will deploy its new fast response cutters in the western Pacific region in order to confront the Chinese fishing fleets who indulge in allegedly predatory activities. The US is now looking to ensure freedom of navigation by contradicting such Chinese fishing fleets. As reported by TFI earlier, the Chinese Communist Party has been using so-called fishing boats to push its maritime militia into the seas to capture territories. The maritime militia of China is a paramilitary force trained by the Chinese navy to engage in, and I quote, patrol, surveillance, resupply, and other missions to bolster China's presence in contested waters. The CCP has been using its maritime militia in order to harass fishermen of other countries all across the western Pacific region, including the hotly contested South China Sea. Other countries like the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, and Malaysia on the South China Sea have regularly raised alarms about large swathes of Chinese fishing fleets, encroaching other sovereign waters. However, one should not mistake such large swathes of fishing boats as ordinary fishing fleets. In fact, more often than not, most of such Chinese fishing boats are part of the Chinese maritime militia, properly trained and educated to ward off potentially armed hostilities, and to also exert dominance in the region by scaring off the fishermen, stealing their fish, and claiming authority over the sovereign boundaries of other nations. Chinese bullying in the South China Sea has even compelled the Filipino navy to consider sending over 200 militia men to the West Philippines to execute patrols and protect fishermen who have long been harassed by encroaching Chinese forces. Apart from the sovereignty issue that the Chinese fishing mafia creates, Beijing is also the most significant culprit when it comes to overfishing and depleting the maritime resources. Recently, the overseas development institute, a London-based think tank reported. Chinese DWF is not solely responsible for the global fisheries crisis. Other countries are also responsible for overfishing. The international community has also failed to ensure oversight of international fishing operations, but the sheer size and global presence of China's DWF fleet has revealed in this report means China is the most significant actor. China has already over exploited its own fishing resources and therefore the communist country often ends up terrorizing its maritime neighbors in the Pacific region over fishing interests. The White House statements two notes, the People's Republic of China's illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and harassment of vessels operating in the exclusive economy zones over the countries in the Indo-Pacific threatens our sovereignty as well as the sovereignty of our Pacific neighbors and dangers regional stability. It added that to that end, the US CG is strategically home porting significantly enhanced fast response cutters in the Western Pacific in the fiscal year 2021. The US CG plans to evaluate the feasibility of basing fast response cutters in American Samoa. If the survey is favorable, the United States could further expand its presence in the South Pacific. By home porting its fast response cutters, the US is simply signaling that the days of Chinese fishing mafia and the Western Pacific are all but over. The US Coast Guard is thus being given a greater role to battle Chinese fishing belligerents in the Western Pacific. The sentinel class fast response cutters that are going to be pressed into service are described by the US Coast Guard as a key component of the Coast Guard's offshore fleet that is capable of deploying independently to conduct missions that include port, waterways and coastal security, fishery patrols, search and rescue and national defense. The US is therefore hitting China where it hurts the most. And now the turntowness rain of the Chinese fishing mafia may be heading towards an uncertain momentous end because the US Coast Guard is coming for it with capable cutters.