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Sunday, April 18, 2010

China may develop full-fledged blue water Navy

Sovremenny class destroyerChinese military war games in South China Sea this weekend deploying naval warships in an "unprecedented scale" showed Beijing's capability to emerge as a full-fledged blue water Navy, military analysts said.

"People's Liberation Army's Navy warships are this weekend exercising southeast of Japan's strategic offshore islands - part of a recent series of Chinese naval war games in East Asia unprecedented in their reach and scope," Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.

"After two decades of double-digit annual increases in military spending, the PLA is rapidly proving it is capable of things once seen as only theoretically possible as it strives to develop a full blue water Navy," it said.

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