Defence forces are monitoring a Chinese surveillance vessel that looks set to arrive off the coast of the northern Australian state of Queensland as wargames involving U.S. and Australian defence forces begin. The Tiangwangxing, which translates to Uranus, is scheduled to arrive July 16 and will park itself just inside Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone—outside of Australia’s territorial waters—where according to international maritime law it has legal grounds to remain. Australian Defence Minister Peter Dutton told the ABC, “We are aware that the People’s Liberation Army (Navy) general intelligence ship Tianwangxing is approaching Australia’s east coast via the Torres Strait.” “We have been monitoring its approach to Australia for several days as part of Australia’s broader surveillance effort,” he added. “We fully expected a ship of this class to arrive in our region during the exercise and have planned for its presence, as we do for every iteration.” “The presence of similar …