 A 2017 report from the China Maritime Studies Institute, the Navy War College, said that China's Coast Guard at that time was about 190,000 tons. The Japanese Coast Guard is half that at 100,000 tons, and the Filipino Coast Guard is just one-tenth the size of the Chinese at 20,000 tons. And that was from a 2016 analysis. In the last eight years, China's added at least 50 Type 056 ships