China is testing South Korea in the Yellow Sea

中国在黄海对韩国试探

Economist

2026-01-17

28 分钟
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  • Welcome back to the deep dive.

  • Today, we're focusing our lens on a patch of water that,

  • well, on the surface, looks pretty harmless.

  • Yeah, completely innocuous.

  • I mean, if you were sailing through the Yellow Sea today, maybe, what,

  • 120 nautical miles east of Rizow, China,

  • you'd stumble across something that just looks like a triumph of modern engineering.

  • Really, is it shiny?

  • It's massive.

  • On a sunny day, you'd probably think it's some kind of monument to human ingenuity.

  • We're talking about the Shenlan one and of course the newer and even bigger Shenlan two.

  • And in the world of aquaculture these are I mean these are basically the pyramids they're that significant.

  • Visually these things are absolute beasts.

  • I really want you to picture this.

  • Imagine a giant yellow octagonal steel cage.

  • But even the word cage feels, I don't know, too small.

  • It's a leviathan.

  • It is.

  • These things extend dozens of meters down into the ocean and they're designed to breed hundreds of thousands of salmon at a time.

  • It's all high-tech.