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Dec 30, 2016
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The recent well-publicized venture by China’s first and so far only aircraft carrier, the Liaoning outside of its familiar coastal waters into the western Pacific and off the coast of Taiwan, is a signal event in China’s ambition to field a true blue-water navy.

When China’s navy looks beyond its coastal waters, which it increasingly does, it sees a kind…

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