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Williams begins by emphasizing the enormous scale of the Pacific Ocean, describing it as a "needle in fifty haystacks" for law enforcement trying to track covert vessels. Despite military patrols and intelligence efforts, the sheer size of the region makes surveillance and interception incredibly challenging. The US Navy's missions to locate Chinese spying vessels exemplify this difficulty—they often fall short because the Pacific's vast expanse is virtually impossible to monitor comprehensively.