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A confidential report that was mistakenly posted on the internet by
the US Office for Naval Intelligence suggests that the People’s
Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy) has been making rapid progress on a
variety of modern weapon platforms.
In recent years, the PLA Navy’s strategic focus has started to creep
outwards from China’s immediate coastal waters- the ‘first island
chain’- and into the South China Sea down towards the Strait of
Malacca, the Philippine Sea beyond Okinawa, and the Sea of Japan- the
‘second island chain.’ The PLA Navy’s interest in the second
island chain is driven by two overarching strategic goals:
reunification with Taiwan and the defense of overseas shipping routes.
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