We must stop meeting like this...
Have to again agree with Wilf. The Chinese and most Asians are really pretty straightforward. They are just far more patient than westerners and they talk less than -- or do not think out loud like -- westerners. Compared the the absolute duplicity, legerdemain and flat out lies in the ME (all in western terms, not those of the ME), Asians are an open book.
Saving face is quite far from an Asian-only activity... :wry:
Strategic Comments - China's three-point naval strategy
From IISS:
Quote:
The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has in 2010 taken part in numerous exercises, experimented with long-range force projection and represented China abroad in a number of diplomatic visits. This heightened level of activity results from an ambitious naval strategy which seeks to secure China's access to energy resources and to give it more diplomatic leverage in territorial disputes with its neighbours.
Link:http://www.iiss.org/publications/str...aval-strategy/
I have added a link to the comments on their role in the Gulf of Aden on the Somali piracy thread too.