Steven Lee Myers, WRAL/New York Times: China, shoring up its navy, muscles into pacific
DALIAN, China — In April, on the 69th anniversary of the founding of China’s navy, the country’s first domestically built aircraft carrier stirred from its berth in the port city of Dalian on the Bohai Sea, tethered to tugboats for a test of its seaworthiness.
“China’s first homegrown aircraft carrier just moved a bit, and the United States, Japan and India squirmed,” a military news website crowed, referring to the three nations China views as its main rivals.
Not long ago, such boasts would have been dismissed as the bravado of a second-string military. No longer.
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WNU Editor: When I think of the Chinese military .... it is not what they have today that bothers me, it is what they will have 10 - 20 years from now that concerns me. They are determined to have the most powerful navy in the Western Pacific and beyond, and if trends continue they will definitely be able to match the US Navy.
