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Beijing's Dream: Becoming a Maritime Superpower ( Source- Wikimedia Commpons / Author- Michael McDevitt)

Image credits- VOA Source- The National Interest Author-  Michael McDevitt In November 2012, then president Hu Jintao’s work report to the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th Party Congress was a defining moment in China’s maritime history. Hu declared that China’s objective is to be a haiyang qiangguo—that is, a strong or great maritime power. China “should enhance our capacity for exploiting marine resources, develop the marine economy, protect the marine ecological environment, resolutely safeguard China’s maritime rights and interests, and build China into a strong maritime power” (emphasis added). Hu’s report also called for building a military (the PLA) that would be “commensurate with China’s international standing.” These two objectives were repeated in the 2012 PRC defense white paper, which was not released until April 2013, after Xi Jinping had assumed Party and national leadership. According to the white paper:   China is a major maritime as well as la

China’s Non-Military Maritime Assets As A Force Multiplier For Security – Analysis ( Source- Eurasia Review / Author- East West Center / Justin Chock)

Source- Wikimedia Commons Source- Eurasia Review Author- East West Center / Justin Chock In 2012, China’s 18th Party Congress set the overall goal of building China into a “strong maritime power,” and the 2015 China National Military Strategy makes a bold call that “the traditional mentality that land outweighs sea must be abandoned.” Ofen, American analyses of Chinese “maritime power” weigh heavily on military capabilities, with publications centered on the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the PLA Navy (PLAN), or the China Coast Guard, especially with advances like the new Chinese Liaoning aircraft carrier or the world’s largest Coast Guard Cutter. Chinese strategists, however, see this concept in a different light. The civilian and economic aspects of China’s maritime power, although not primarily for military use, are seen as a rapidly growing tool for securing maritime space. Various official sources from the government‐run Xinhua newspaper, to Beijing University a