The 400-strong crew of the Yuan Wang 5, a Chinese military “research” vessel, are in the tracking business. With a deck bristling with huge dish antennae and high-tech banks of lasers and radar, their ship monitors the skies for satellites and missiles.
But for several days last week, it was the Yuan Wang 5 that was being tracked as the vessel loitered and pivoted in the Indian Ocean, about…
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