China to deploy range of naval ships in Indian Ocean

[axisofevil]

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[Saifullah Sani]

PLAN to deploy range of warships in Indian Ocean, says China's defence ministry

The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) will deploy a range of naval vessels into the Indian Ocean region in the future, said a senior military official during a press conference on 29 January.

The comment by Senior Colonel Yang Yujun, a spokesperson at China's Ministry of National Defense (MND), comes against the backdrop of increased PLAN deployments to the region since it first took part in international counter-piracy efforts off Somalia in 2008. Since then, the PLAN has progressively expanded the frequency and type of naval vessels - the latter now to include submarines - that it sends to the Indian Ocean.

"In the future, the Chinese military will send different kinds of naval ships to take part in the naval escort missions in accordance with the situation and the requirement to fulfil the task," Col Yang told reporters.

The colonel was responding to a question on the PLAN's submarine movements in the Indian Ocean and described the service's intended deployments as "normal activities" and that "there is no need to read too much into them".

"The Chinese military has sent various kinds of naval ships to the Gulf of Aden and the waters off the Somali coast to conduct escort missions since 2008 - and in the process, we have notified relevant countries of the escort missions of the PLA naval ships, including the PLA naval submarines", said Col Yang, although he did not name the countries.

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The PLAN had no significant blue-water capability until the mid-1990s and was absent from the Indian Ocean region until 2008, when a squadron of three ships led by the Type 052C 'Luyang II'-class guided-missile destroyer Haikou (171) sailed through the Malacca Strait to participate in the international Somali counter-piracy campaign. The deployment was described by observers as China's first naval deployment outside the Asia-Pacific region since the 15th century.

Today, the PLAN is deploying the 19th rotation of its naval escort fleet to the counter-piracy campaign. Over the years, this rotational task group has conducted goodwill visits to a number of Indian Ocean countries including Kenya, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania. In September 2014, a PLAN submarine, reported to be the Type 039 Song-class diesel-electric boat Great Wall , visited the Sri Lankan capital Colombo.

As well as seeking to protect critical sea lines of communication across the Indian Ocean, along which it ships natural resources home to its population as well as transporting their products to market, China may be seeking to expand its presence in the Indian Ocean to offset the political-military constraints it faces in the Pacific Ocean region given the increasing US focus on that region and the existence of a number of territorial disputes with countries such as Japan, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

PLAN to deploy range of warships in Indian Ocean, says China's defence ministry - IHS Jane's 360