PLA aims to roam the world
May 25, 2021
Hong Kong, May 25 : The year 2008 was a seminal one for the Chinese military, as in December the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) dispatched a naval task force to the Gulf of Aden on what has turned out to be continuous presence. It was a watershed, as China proceeded to establish the first overseas military base in Djibouti and to begin roaming far more widely across the world's oceans.