(260526) -- BEIJING, May 26, 2026 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 26, 2026 shows the launching event of the "Report on the Military Activities of Non-U.S. Extra-Regional Countries in the Western Pacific in 2025" in Beijing, capital of China. Extra-regional countries, other than the United States, continued to expand their military presence in the Western Pacific over the past year, conducting reconnaissance patrols, transiting the Taiwan Strait and carrying out forward deployments, according to the think tank report produced by the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative, a Beijing-based maritime think tank, released Tuesday.

Compiled from incomplete statistics, the "Report on the Military Activities of Non-U.S. Extra-Regional Countries in the Western Pacific in 2025" records that 48 warships, mostly from Europe, Oceania and Canada, operated in the region last year. (Xinhua/Chen Yichen)