Is China Searching for MH370?

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/03/malaysia-has-not-signed.html.
Armada 7806 has abandoned the MH370 search. Ocean Infinity have pledged to continue the quest to find the missing airliner no matter what, but right now that means after the southern winter, November at the earliest. However, almost as soon as Armada headed home to Singapore something very strange happened. Another ship approached the area, a ship that looks remarkably similar to Armada; it's illustrated above. It left Wellington, New Zealand on the 23rd of March and arrived at the seventh arc on the 7th of April. It is currently very close to where the OI vessel was searching. The ship is Chinese and called 探索一号 "Tan Suo Yi Hao"; which translates as "Explorer Number One". As you can see she is similar in design to Armada 7806 which means her purpose is also similar. The difference is she's a lot bigger and probably better equipped. According to her registry she does have AUV's and the ability to launch them; as well as a manned submersible. Her destination is currently listed as Sanya, a port in China, although she's clearly in no rush to get there. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YoTLRighlI. What is that ship doing there? Could there be any other purpose than the obvious? It looks like China has decided to begin its own search for MH370. Beijing has said nothing about doing their own search so far, but there's no reason why they shouldn't. Nobody needs anybody's permission to try. The search area is not private property or in anybody's territorial waters. If you have the ability and equipment, you could head there and have a go yourself. Assuming this is an unacknowledged attempt by China to find the lost aircraft then it stands as good as chance as any we've seen so far. Chinese submersibles, ROV's and AUV's hold the world records for depth, endurance and other capabilities.

What will happen if they succeed? As far as we're aware Malaysia knows nothing about this operation and has not offered China any money to do it. Obviously, deals could have been done in secret or perhaps Beijing hope Malaysia will give them a generous post-hoc tip out of the goodness of their heart in the massive publicity celebration following success. 153 of the 239 people on board MH370 were Chinese citizens and there have been massive protests in China by the relatives and their supporters. It takes a lot to induce the Chinese to carry out street protests because the government takes a very hard line against them; like in Tiananmen Square. The inevitable question is whether this means China is aware of the alternative ideas related to MH370; the distinct possibility that MH370 is not in the Indian Ocean at all. Back in 2014 they published a satellite photograph of what was said at the time to be plane wreckage in the Gulf of Thailand. This was before the theory that the plane crashed soon after it vanished was discounted in favour of the suicidal pilot flying south theory that prevails today; except by alternative MH37-tologists like Jeff Wise, Florence de Changy and Ashton Forbes. Source: https://time.com/22542/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-images-vanished-jet/. Ashton Forbes commented that he thought this was actually a photo of the orbs "zapping" the plane. It was China's way of telling the United States "We know what you did!" Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTFyGNA9qtY. You might wonder why I am taking so much interest in the Indian Ocean searches when I'm fairly sure the plane did not crash there. The simple answer is, in case I'm wrong. The Indian Ocean suicide hypothesis needs to be explored and eliminated. I expect the Chinese government feels the same way.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2024/05/mh370-portal.html.