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SAN FRANCISCO \u2014<\/p>\n

A Chinese navy ship stayed in the Sulu Sea southwest of the Philippines for three days, upsetting Manila. Experts say it is a part of Beijing\u2019s effort to look after its interests in an ever-wider swath of the world’s waterways.<\/p>\n

A People\u2019s Liberation Army-Navy vessel worked the Sulu Sea from January 29 to February 1; according to a Monday\u00a0statement from the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila<\/a>, this was an \u201cillegal incursion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Electronic Reconnaissance Ship No. 792 \u201centered Philippine waters without permission\u201d and stayed even after a Philippine navy ship challenged it, the statement says.<\/p>\n

At a March 15 news conference,\u00a0Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman<\/a>\u00a0Zhao Lijian said the navy research vessel had carried out \u201can exercise of the right of innocent passage pursuant to UNCLOS [United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea]. The Chinese passage was safe and standard, and consistent with international law and international practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chinese side\u2019s comment showed no immediate intent to do more in the Sulu Sea, said Herman Kraft, a political science professor at University of the Philippines Diliman.<\/p>\n

\u201cTalking about innocent passage seems to be an excuse that recognizes Philippine jurisdiction over the area,\u201d Kraft told VOA.<\/p>\n

Sulu Sea significance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beijing is trying to expand the reach of its growing navy to protect its maritime interests and increase bargaining power in talks with other countries, analysts have told VOA. Chinese navy ships have been spotted from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific east of Taiwan and Japan.<\/p>\n


\n<\/a>A naval visit to the Sulu Sea could mean Beijing wants to establish a presence in waters closer to Indonesia and Australia while buffering its South China Sea claims, analysts suggest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis could be China exploring a third access to Pacific, after Miyako and Bashi straits,\u201d said Yun Sun, co-director of the East Asia program at the Stimson Center in Washington. The two straits are near Taiwan. \u201cThe U.S. apparently uses it often, so the Chinese might feel it could do the same,\u201d Sun said.<\/p>\n

China has protested U.S. naval presence in Asia and has said that Washington is trying to check Chinese expansion.<\/p>\n

The People’s Liberation Army-Navy now has the ability to \u201coperate military assets\u201d as far off as Djibouti, said Alexander Vuving, a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, in Hawaii. Like the United States, he said, China is free under international law to sail on the high seas, which are waters unclaimed by other nations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe strategic perspective is that Chinese naval capability is growing, so China sooner or later will send out its warships to areas outside of the first island chain and even outside the second island chain,\u201d Vuving said. The first chain refers to the band from Russia\u2019s Kirul Islands south to Borneo. The second includes Papua New Guinea, the Marianas and the Caroline Islands.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s former President Hu Jintao called in 2012 for China to become a \u201cmaritime power.\u201d President Xi Jinping, in 2018, said it was urgent that China build a \u201cpowerful navy.\u201d A year later, the country\u2019s\u00a0defense white paper<\/a>\u00a0said China needed to carry out \u201cmissions on the far seas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChina\u2019s navy is viewed as posing a major challenge to the U.S. Navy\u2019s ability to achieve and maintain wartime control of blue-water ocean areas in the Western Pacific \u2013 the first such challenge the U.S. Navy has faced since the end of the Cold War,\u201d the U.S. Congressional Research Service said in a\u00a0March 8 research note<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Chinese military may be exploring the Sulu Sea as a detour in or out of the adjoining South China Sea in case of any conflict, Vuving said. Warships could use the Sulu Sea to launch vessels into the South China Sea or seal it off, he said.<\/p>\n

Beijing claims most of the South China Sea. It has upset the Philippines and four other Asian governments that claim all or part of the same resource-rich, 3.5 million-square-kilometer waterway. China, backed by\u00a0military and technological superiority<\/a>, is building out once-uninhabited islets for hangars, radars and tiny outposts. U.S. warships periodically enter the sea as warnings to China.<\/p>\n

As of 2012, the Chinese navy had 512 ships, according to Britain\u2019s International Institute of Strategic Studies. It now has 777 assets, mainly seafaring vessels, the database\u00a0Globalfirepower.com<\/a>\u00a0says.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Source: Voice of America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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