"The task of building a powerful navy has never been as urgent as it is today," Xi said that day.
lørdag 6. mars 2021
China has built the world's largest navy. Now what's Beijing going to do with it?
In 2018, Chinese President Xi Jinping donned military fatigues and boarded a People's Liberation Army Navy destroyer in the South China Sea. Spread out before him that April day was the largest flotilla Communist-ruled China had ever put to sea at one time, 48 ships, dozens of fighter jets, more than 10,000 military personnel. For Xi, the country's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, the day was a way point to a grand ambition -- a force that would show China's greatness and power across the world's seven oceans.
"The task of building a powerful navy has never been as urgent as it is today," Xi said that day.
"The task of building a powerful navy has never been as urgent as it is today," Xi said that day.
