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Summary The first 2-week course for 84 leading officers began this week at the Naval Command College.
Chinas fast-modernizing navy is stepping up training for anti-piracy patrols off the coast of Somalia in a sign of its growing long-term commitment to overseas missions.The website of the military newspaper Liberation Army Daily said Friday that the first two-week course for 84 leading officers began this week at the Naval Command College in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing.It said they will run drills and discuss military theory as well as exchange experience from Chinas previous anti-piracy missions.China first launched the anti-piracy patrols in December 2008, joining an international flotilla aiming to protect shipping in the Gulf of Aden. The move marked a major break with the navys traditional role of protecting Chinas coastal regio
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