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1. Jim Nicoll - Member

   MY COMMENT:
   China currently provides escort vessels to assist vessels of any nationality through some of the troubled waters and has been linked to a number of reports in negotiating for facilities for bases in the region. The latest being the Seychelles.
   The Gulf Today 18 February 2012
   BEIJING: China’s fast-modernising navy is stepping up training for anti-piracy patrols off the coast of Somalia in a sign of its growing long-term commitment to overseas missions.

   The Gulf Today

   The website of the military newspaper Liberation Army Daily said on Friday that the first two-week course for 84 leading officers began last week at the Naval Command College in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing. It said they will run drills and discuss military theory as well as exchange experience from China’s previous anti-piracy missions.

   China first launched the anti-piracy patrols in December 2008, joining an international flotilla aiming to protect shipping in the Gulf of Aden. The move marked a major break with the navy’s traditional role of protecting China’s coastal region.

   Sea piracy worldwide dropped slightly in 2011 for the first time in five years but Somali pirates have intensified attacks and remained the greatest threat, according to the International Maritime Bureau (IMB). Sea robbery rose in Indonesia for a second straight year to 46 attacks, up from 40 in 2010.

   But pirate attacks in the South China Sea plunged to 13, from 31 in 2010. Bangladesh also showed improvement with only 10 attacks, from 23 in 2010, thanks to initiatives taken by its coast guards, the IMB said.

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