The United States Coast Guard encountered four vessels from the Russian and Chinese counterparts near Alaska on Saturday as they transited toward the Arctic Ocean for patrols.
A U.S. Coast Guard HC-130J long-range surveillance aircraft spotted two Russian border guard ships and two Chinese coast guard ships approximately 440 miles southwest of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement on Tuesday.
It is the northernmost location where the U.S. Coast Guard has so far spotted its counterpart from China. The four ships were sailing northeastward and were…