 And four Chinese naval vessels were spotted by our Coast Guard ships earlier this month inside the U.S. exclusive economic zone of the Bering Sea, just north of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. The incident, which represented a rare incursion by the Chinese so close to American waters, was reported about a week later. A Coast Guard cutter on a routine patrol identified three Chinese ships about 124 miles north of the Amchitka Pass. A fourth Chinese ship was spotted 84 miles north of the Amutka Pass.