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SAIL FAR SEAS Even as it seeks to control its near seas, China is determined to expand its naval presence in the "far seas". This is what great powers have always done sanitise your neighbourhood against foreign military presence and increase your strategic influence in distant theatres. As China's economic interests become global and dispersed, the PLA Navy has begun to transform itself into a genuine bluewater force with the necessary reach, endurance and skills to operate far from its national shores. This month marks five years of unbroken Chinese naval operations in the Gulf of Aden. Since December 2008,
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China has dispatched task forces to the Arabian Sea to participate in the anti-piracy activities. According to a leading US naval expert, Andrew Erickson, "antipiracy operations have sharpened the Far Seas operational capacity of Chinese PLAN crewmen, Special Forces soldiers, naval aviators, and various surface platforms deployed off Somalia". They have also helped PLAN learn the crafts of at-sea replenishment for its naval task forces and create logistical networks to support the extended deployments away from the homeland. In the words of the Chinese newspaper Global Times, the forces participating in this mission over the last five years have been transformed from "maritime rookies into confident sea dogs". (UN)MAKE ALLIANCES China's maritime rise is not all about military technical capabilities. It is about aligning naval power with political purposes. Although the PLAN is some distance away from mastering the naval operational
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arts, it has benefited immensely from a civilian leadership that has developed an effective maritime strategy. Central to this has been the focus on alliances, both positive and negative. In the far seas, China is building special political relationships and deepening military partnerships with key countries in the Indo-Pacific littoral. In the near seas, Beijing's emphasis is on loosening the traditional US alliances and preventing its Asian neighbours from developing a united front against China. As part of this strategy, Beijing has focused on isolating Japan, stoking American ambiguities and probing the cleavage between Tokyo and Seoul. ... contd.
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