27.10.2023, 12:16
Zu den fortschreitenden chinesischen maritimen Rüstungsanstrengungen und den wachsenden aggressiven Reaktionen:
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Zitat:Pentagon Assesses The PLA Navy’s Modernization And Growing Aggressionhttps://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/202...ggression/
The Pentagon’s annual assessment of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) – entitled the 2023 Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China – was published on 19 October. [...]
It highlighted an alarming trend of aggression as Beijing wields the PLA as a “capable instrument of statecraft”. The US DoD warned: “Throughout the year, the PLA adopted more coercive actions in the Indo-Pacific region, while accelerating its development of capabilities and concepts to strengthen the PRC’s ability to ‘fight and win wars’ against a ‘strong enemy’, counter an intervention by a third party in a conflict along the PRC’s periphery, and to project power globally.”
These conclusions were underscored just two days later when a swarm of China Coast Guard and Maritime Militia vessels deliberately obstructed Philippine vessels, even colliding with one, in the vicinity of Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea. The Philippine vessels were there to resupply the garrison on the beached BRP Sierra Madre. [...]
The PLAN is numerically the largest navy in the world, “with an overall battle force of over 370 ships and submarines, including more than 140 major surface combatants”.
What is astounding in this statement is that the total number has risen 30 from the 340 vessels listed in the 2022 report. Nor does this include 60 Houbei-class missile boats. With 140 major surface combatants listed, this number has expanded by 15 compared to 2022. Note that the report essentially covers developments till late 2022 or early 2023. The Chinese naval fleet is “largely composed of modern multi-mission ships and submarines,” and there is little let-up in production either.
Schneemann