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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Call it China's new military diplomacy or birth traits of its emerging naval strategy, a Chinese naval fleet arrived in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia on 6 January, 2009 to carry out the first escort mission against pirates. In an efficient display of its growing naval operational capabilities, the fleet completed itw twenty first mission of escorting merchant ships in the this region on 18 February, 2009.
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