Call Made To Send Chinese Ships On Piracy Mission Off Somalia

A senior Chinese policy adviser has urged Beijing to join international efforts to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia, reports the maritime newspaper Lloyd's List.

"I believe the Chinese navy should send naval vessels to the Gulf of Aden to carry out anti-piracy duties," said Maj. Gen. Jin Yinan, the head of a strategy institute at China's National Defense University, in a newspaper interview. "With China as a major world economy, it’s very difficult to say that security...