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Title: | The evolution of the PLA Navy and China’s national security interests |
Authors: | Micallef, Steve |
Keywords: | Naval strategy -- China Sea-power -- China China -- Military policy Pacific Ocean -- Strategic aspects |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Publisher: | Center for International Maritime Security |
Citation: | Micallef, S. (2017). The evolution of the PLA Navy and China’s national security interests. Retrieved from http://cimsec.org/evolution-pla-navy-chinas-national-security-interests/34782 |
Abstract: | Since the beginning of the 21 century the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has steadily developed into a blue-water force able to rely on an ever increasing amount of modern equipment and platforms. This has been the result of years of intense effort on the part of naval planners in support of a more-forward oriented Chinese foreign and security policy. Indeed, until the 1990s, the PLAN was mostly a littoral or brown-water force tasked with protecting China’s waterways and never venturing far from coastal waters. Today the PLAN is enjoying an influx of money and new equipment as well as the fruition of development programs started in the 1990s and 2000s. All this has resulted in a professional force which is able to protect Chinese interest abroad, further Chinese foreign policy, and build Chinese prestige worldwide. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/31577 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - ERCNSGen |
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