People's Liberation Army expert: China never conceals must construct formidable milit

PLA Academy of Military Sciences researcher Zhou, 31, Chen said that ASEAN countries should be assured that China's development of naval power to protect its maritime rights and interests and regional peace and stability in the world will never seek hegemony.


Here at the "China and ASEAN (10 +1) defense and security dialogue", the Philippine defense Associate Dean, a retired Navy 准将马瑞亚诺 Song Tilanuosa question that the People's Liberation Army Navy in recent years to develop the surrounding area caused by unrest in some countries, the Chinese could give ASEAN countries in order to ensure maritime security?


"With China's economic development and expansion of national interests, the Chinese military, especially the navy in the development and growth is an undeniable fact; the Chinese government has never hidden the armed forces to build a strong." Chen Zhou said.


Chen Zhou attended the Association of Southeast Asian Nations member countries to introduce defense scholar, the founder of People's Liberation Army of Mao Zedong once said, "We must build a powerful navy." He said that China is both a land power and sea power, the Chinese aggression in modern times been mainly from the ocean, this is the development of the PLA Navy's historical factors. China also faces the direction of maritime safety, maritime rights and interests disputes the Army can not solve the problem, which is developing the Navy's actual needs.


Chen Zhou defense scholars to ASEAN countries that China is very clearly put forward the development of the navy is to build a defensive sea power; even if a strong country, it must be regional, defensive.


Has participated in many of China's defense white paper to write to the ASEAN defense academics Chen Zhou said the People's Liberation Army Navy is to accelerate the current from the coastal defense to offshore defense strategy changes, defense will not change the development of the region to expand the Navy's defensive nature.


Published in 2008, China's defense white paper wrote, the PLA Navy Sea cooperation and the progressive development of distant response capacity of non-traditional security threats. The end of 2008, the Chinese government to the waters of the Gulf of Aden piracy rampant in succession to send naval ships, merchant ships for the Chinese and foreign security convoy through the area, protect the country's maritime strategy of access, to fulfill its international humanitarian obligations.


April 2009, the PLA Navy to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment, in the Yellow Sea held a grand military parade at sea. Foreign exchange through the promotion of the Navy's maritime security cooperation, to create harmony of the marine environment.


In recent years, the PLA with the United Kingdom, India and Pakistan Navy organizes joint naval exercise, with ASEAN members Thailand, Singapore and other countries to conduct joint army exercises and training.


Chen Zhou said the Chinese government has repeatedly said that in the context of globalization, maritime security cooperation should be a way to win, should not be exclusive, nor is it zero-sum game. ASEAN countries should understand and be assured that China has no history of aggression and will never seek hegemony