China has built the world s largest navy. Now what s Beijing going to do with it? CNN 3/6/2021 Analysis by Brad Lendon, CNN © ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images A Type 052D destroyer of China s People s Liberation Army Navy provides an escort ahead of the Liaoning aircraft carrier into the Lamma Channel as it arrives in Hong Kong territorial waters on July 7, 2017.
In 2018, Chinese President Xi Jinping donned military fatigues and boarded a People s Liberation Army Navy destroyer in the South China Sea.
Spread out before him that April day was the largest flotilla Communist-ruled China had ever put to sea at one time, 48 ships, dozens of fighter jets, more than 10,000 military personnel.
ANALYSIS: China has built the world s largest navy Now what s Beijing going to do with it?
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Report: North Korea ready to stage artillery exercises on Lunar New Year
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Kim Jong Un’s personal train was detected near the North Korean city of Wonsan, according to a South Korean press report. File Photo by KCNA/EPA-EFE
Feb. 11 (UPI) North Korea could be preparing to stage a large-scale artillery exercise and the activity could take place during the Lunar New Year holiday, which begins Friday.
JoongAng Ilbo reported Thursday South Korean military authorities are monitoring unusual movements in the North, a day after Kim Jong Un gave inter-Korean and foreign policy directives during a Workers Party committee meeting.