Posted on Mar 6, 2021
Analysis: China has built the world's largest navy. Now what's Beijing going to do with it?
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In 2018, Chinese President Xi Jinping donned military fatigues and boarded a People's Liberation Army Navy destroyer in the South China Sea.
Spread out before him that April day was the largest flotilla Communist-ruled China had ever put to sea at one time, 48 ships, dozens of fighter jets, more than 10,000 military personnel.
For Xi, the country's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, the day was a way point to a grand ambition -- a force that would show China's greatness and power across the world's seven oceans.
"The task of building a powerful navy has never been as urgent as it is today," Xi said that day.
Spread out before him that April day was the largest flotilla Communist-ruled China had ever put to sea at one time, 48 ships, dozens of fighter jets, more than 10,000 military personnel.
For Xi, the country's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, the day was a way point to a grand ambition -- a force that would show China's greatness and power across the world's seven oceans.
"The task of building a powerful navy has never been as urgent as it is today," Xi said that day.
Analysis: China has built the world's largest navy. Now what's Beijing going to do with it?
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Considering China is already establishing forward island bases for ships and aircraft way beyond their own shores it should be too hard to figure out their motives. Also gaining control of other countries first by economic control and back that up with Military power if the find a need in their own estimate. Taking the steps to build into a global power isn't being hidden, anyone watching China should be able to figure that out. This isn't even about the Chinese People, its about the ruling Communist Party leadership.
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