evidence: The PRC claims all of Taiwan and its associated waters as PRC territory. It had largely respected Taiwan’s de facto jurisdiction in waters around Kinmen and Matsu before 2024, however, and has cooperated with Taiwan on law enforcement.[ix] In February 2024, following a tragic incident that killed two PRC fishermen in prohibited waters around Kinmen, the PRC explicitly denied the existence of any Taiwanese "prohibited and restricted waters." Beijing began asserting its right to conduct law enforcement patrols in these waters at will. Without the protective "bubbles" of their maritime boundaries, the Kinmen and Matsu islands are located entirely within the PRC’s internationally recognized territorial waters. The PRC wishes to integrate them fully. It has pursued a range of law enforcement, military, economic, legal, and other means to accomplish this end.