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Chinese Naval Task Force Returns Home
2010-04-26
Standard news release unedited
More than 800 officers and soldiers with Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy returned home Friday morning to a naval base in the Zhoushan Islands in eastern China after serving in Somali waters.

During the 128-day tour of duty, the flotilla rescued three merchant ships from pirate attacks and escorted 661 vessels, including a 20-km-long flotilla of 31 merchant ships, reportedly the biggest ship group to have been escorted in the Gulf of Aden.
Good for them. While China is no doubt not acting from the purest of motives, it's right that they act responsibly.
The group saw its biggest action Feb. 25, when about 100 suspicious vessels were fast approaching and reportedly "harassing" the merchant ships. Shipboard helicopters took off and launched warning shots at several small boats that were about to attack.

According to a Xinhua reporter on board one helicopter, the suspicious vessels, intimidated by high explosive shells and flares, fled.

Previously, the shipboard helicopters had made six emergency takeoffs and drove off five groups of suspicious vessels.

The team also visited the United Arab Emirates and the Philippines at the invitation of the two nations' navies.

Two frigates, along with the supply ship Qiandaohu, set sail for the Gulf of Aden Oct.30, 2009 and arrived in the Gulf of Aden Nov. 12.
Posted by:badanov

#3  ION WMF > PLAN'S NORTH CHINA SEAS FLEET CONDUCTS MILITARY DRILLS, NAVAL VISITS IN THE STRAITS OF MALACCAS.

* SAME > "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" IS BOTH CHINA'S NATURAL DEFENSE AND ITS DEADLY TRAP: CHINA MUST DEFEAT OR OVERWHELM SEVERAL STRATEGIC NODES OF DENIAL BY DIPLOMACY OR BY MILITARY FORCE TO ACCESS THE PACIFIC OCEAN.

* SAME > US CONTROL OF TAIWAN, GUAM, AND SINGAPORE'S CHANGI BASE IS KEY/CENTRAL TO ITS ABILITY TO MIL DEFEAT CHINA IN THE TAIWAN STRAITS AND FIRST ISLAND CHAIN.

* SAME > CHINA'S OKINAWA/MIYAKO FLEET PIERCES THE WEAK HEART OF JAPAN IN THE DAOYUS AND TAIWAN TO SURROUND AND ANNIHILATE THE JAPANESE, + JAPAN'S MOVES TO DEV EAST CHINA SEAS SEABED RESOURCES IN VIOLATION OF CHINA'S CLAIMS/DEMANDS OF SOVEREIGNTY WILL LEAD TOWARDS SINO-JAPANESE MIL CONFLICT.

SAME > 2012: CHINA'S SURFACE AIRCRAFT CARRIER MAY CARRY UP TO SIXTY AIRCRAFT.

SAME > RUSSIA TREMBLING: THE RISE OF CHINESE MILITARY, GEOPOL HAWKS AND THEIR GROWING POLICY INFLUENCE IN BEIJING. HAWKS' DESIRE TO SEE THE FALL OF RUSSIA'S FAR EAST, NORTHEAST PACIFIC, SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA TO CHINA.

** WAFF > GLOBALRESEARCH.CA - AMERICA'S IMPERIAL DESIGN "PROMPT GLOBAL STRIKE": WORLD MILITARY SUPERIORITY WIDOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS, as complemented by deployment of EFFECTIVE RELIABLE US GMD-TMD in strategic world regions.

Also read, US-CENTRIC WORLD MIL/MILPOL DOMINANCE WIDOUT NEEDS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-04-26 22:38  

#2  Shooting at pirates? Whoda thunk that would have worked?

FYI, Zhoushan is a major naval base. When the British got Hong Kong from the Opium War, the ministers were royally pissed off. They wanted Zhoushan, as it was far better than the muddy village that was Hong Kong at the time.
Posted by: gromky   2010-04-26 06:37  

#1  Spreading goodwill across the globe. /sarc
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2010-04-26 00:04  

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