Photo: The Navy suspects the ship is carrying out surveillance on the Australians. (Supplied)
ABC News Online: Chinese vessel believed to be spy ship docks next to HMAS Adelaide in Fiji
It may not have looked like much of a match — or a showdown for that matter — but when Australia's largest warship HMAS Adelaide arrived at the Fijian port of Suva on Saturday, it had an interesting neighbour.
A Chinese ship fitted with communications equipment docked alongside the new Canberra-class landing helicopter dock.
The Royal Australian Navy suspects the Chinese vessel is a spy ship, which deliberately arrived at the same time to carry out surveillance on the Australians.
HMAS Adelaide and other Australian warships visiting Fiji will "take the appropriate security precautions", but the surveillance craft is "just another ship", Captain Jim Hutton, Commander of the Navy's Joint Task Group 661, said.
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WNU Editor: The Deputy Chief of Navy Rear Admiral Mark Hammond who is on board the HMAS Adelaide is playing down concerns about the presence of the Chinese vessel .... calling it a "space surveillance ship, it's a scientific ship"
That may be true .... but when I look at the above pictre, it sure as hell looks like a spy ship.
