Chinese sailors. Xinhua Photo
China surpassed every American security planners’ expectations in its successful building and deploying of the world’s largest maritime fleet in just 20 years, a leading naval strategist said Wednesday. The question now is what Beijing’s military and paramilitary forces will look like in the future.
Toshi Yoshihara, a co-author of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments’ new report “Which Way the Dragon?,” said looking ahead 15 years the “structural...
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