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China To Join Pirate Chase Off Coast of Africa
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by polylogue | December 25, 2008 at 07:35 pm
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China is set to join the fight against piracy in the Gulf of Aden. According to the BBC, three ships are preparing to steam to the waters off the coast of Africa to join the international effort against the pirates operating in the area.
BBC quotes a Chinese embassy spokesman, who said, "Acts of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and coastal waters off Somalia have been increasingly rampant since the beginning of this year, posing a severe danger to the safety of ships and members from many countries, including China. Apart from this, pirates have also been threatening ships delivering humanitarian relief items to Somalia by international organisations. Piracy has become an international scourge."
This operation will be the Chinese navy's first outside the Pacific. China insists, however, that the country's doctrine of non-interference in the affairs of other countries has not changed, according to the BBC.
Two destroyers and a supply ship will leave the port of Sanya on Hainan island to join warships from other nations already patrolling the area.
It will be the Chinese navy's first operation beyond the Pacific.
There have been more than 100 pirate attacks this year off Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden.
On Thursday, the German navy said it had foiled an attempt by pirates to hijack an Egyptian cargo vessel off Somalia.
Six Somali pirates were captured by sailors of the frigate Karlsruhe in the Gulf of Aden. However, the pirates were immediately released on the orders of the German government, officials told the BBC.
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at 20:52 on December 25th, 2008
Thank you for the post, however that post has been out already. Would you please link to the previous one. Should you need help, please do contact any Editor by PM and they will assist you. Thank you.
at 20:59 on December 25th, 2008
Hi, Further to Paschen comment. Yes this is very old story and was reported the day it was announced. The UN security council gave member country to do hot pursuit and China took decision to send their naval ship after this sanction. Please search now public site before posting any story. Thanks for your post, Best
at 03:03 on December 26th, 2008
At least you with your team in India taking all places giving always nice advices to stop new writers from reporting . I call this missing int'l social skills. I hope you get that finally this is a crowd powered and not editor & local hamburger helpers newspaper. With this language you are soon alone. There are always 2 or 3 articles in parallel the better may win.or not ? The prefabricated Bombs and cricket articles nobody interested in the ROW. Merry christmas Sanjay and go through a chance we need to encourage new writers and no supervisior jumping around in a prison camp style. Remember what I told you not everybody is competent to report about everything. As you see by your own Mumbai style Guinea article with uploaded "Liberian image of a crashed car" that's world junk journalism from people writing in groups having no intelligence of the area; I got many complaints from Africa. For sure they want not to be presented in your Mumbai bomb cricket style;
at 09:10 on December 26th, 2008
at 09:10 on December 26th, 2008
I am "truly" sorry if this was posted earlier. When I found it and began posting it to the site I found no mention on the site or the nowpublic publisher which always says if there is a related story. There was nothing even though I had the tags "China, Somalia, pirate, etc." If I screwed up, I'm sorry. But its not like we're a bunch of Woodwards and Bernsteins, we're all tagging CNN or BBC stories. That's not a scoop.
at 02:52 on December 26th, 2008
polyloge nice report, everywher in the news today, could also lead to a conflict between the warships now hanging around there with no clear order.
China warships set sail on anti-pirate mission
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at 03:17 on December 27th, 2008
there is no pirates, they are fighting against aliens. truth.