A Shot Across the Bow: China Signals New Era of Sea Power in the Southwest Pacific – The Diplomat

The live-fire exercises were a demonstration of China’s growing sea power in Australia and New Zealand’s immediate periphery – and meant to normalize the PLA presence there.

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