After two weeks focusing on developments at the Eighteenth Party Congress, and with the next generation of China’s leadership now public news for the world to digest, this week on Sinica we take a break from China’s leadership transition and turn our attention to more long-term developments in Chinese foreign policy. And with this in mind, Kaiser Kuo is delighted to be joined by Taylor Fravel, Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT and expert on Chinese foreign policy, particularly its naval development.
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China’s first aircraft carrier, a former Soviet carrier called the Varyag, docked after its handover to the Navy. Song Xue, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Navy, said that in April 2013 “China will have more than one aircraft carrier.”
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