China Starts Crackdown on Maritime Piracy

In an effort to combat a rise in maritime piracy, Chinese officials set a November 30, 1994 deadline for pirates to surrender themselves and their vessels to authorities in exchange for lenient treatment. The Chinese Government also defended the current status of enforcement and minimized existing piracy problems by stating that some attacks on vessels that were labeled as piracy were actually "misconducts by a few law enforcement officers."...(more)