China is striving to dupe the Automatic Identification System or the AIS to prevent world monitors from tracking the shipping data off China’s shores. Fixed-point terrestrial AIS receivers on China’s coastline and interior waterways, which used to transmit the locations of nearby ships dozens of times per minute, are now mostly dark. AIS data is vital for shipping companies for tracking and securing their ships, along with accordingly facilitating ship traffic, to avoid clogging and congestion at destinatio
