There is no Chinese equivalent of the US fleet tracker, because Beijing publishes no deployments. So this is built the only honest way — from the disclosers and open sensors: Taiwan's daily activity counts, free satellite imagery over the home berths, and graded press sightings, fused by our Argus engine. Warships run dark and AIS is spoofable, so absence is not evidence of absence.
gold diamond = PLAN naval base (click for imagery)dot = corroborated event (size = sources, colour = grade)○ = chokepoint
OSINT inference · not a position feed
PLA Navy — disposition snapshot
No state publishes PLAN deployments. This fuses the disclosers — Taiwan's MND daily tally, Japan's MoD, positional OSINT — and graded press sightings. Warships run dark and AIS is spoofable, so absence is not evidence of absence.
Around Taiwan — daily activity (Taiwan MND, grade A)
7
PLAN vessels
8
coast guard
0
aircraft
2026-10-047 ships · 8 CCG · 0 air
2026-10-036 ships · 7 CCG · 5 air
2026-10-027 ships · 8 CCG · 6 air · median crossed
2026-10-017 ships · 7 CCG · 23 air · median crossed
2026-09-307 ships · 6 CCG · 9 air
2026-09-296 ships · 4 CCG · 3 air
Positional fixes: AIS quiet · 1 military aircraft tracked · no active firing zones.
Method: Argus Layer-1 collection, China-nexus filtered. The fix you can trust least is the one Beijing most wants you to see — the empty berth at Yulin tells you more than any transponder. What this disposition means runs in the Pacific Brief.
The tracker shows the picture. The brief is the judgment.
This page shows what open sources reveal about the PLA Navy. What that disposition means — the assessed read, the rival interpretation, PHIA likelihood language — runs in the weekly Pacific Brief.
Method: Taiwan MND daily PLA-activity counts (official, grade A); free ESA Copernicus Sentinel-1 SAR / Sentinel-2 optical over fixed PLAN bases (10 m — a carrier is countable at a pier); China-area corroborated events from the Argus collection engine; graded press/official sightings filtered to a China nexus. Source grades follow NATO Admiralty reliability. This is inference from reporting, not a live position feed. Full methodology →