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55. “Major overseas visits of PLA naval ships,” available from
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on the individual port calls through 2006, see Chapter
15, “Foreign Relations, in the USN Office of Naval Intelligence’s
China’s Navy 2007,” available from merln.ndu.edu/archive/china/
dod/chinanavy2007.pdf.
56. This voyage lasted 4 months and covered 30,000 nautical
miles.
57. China’s Navy 2007, Chapter 15.
58. Chen Gang, “Xinhua ‘Yearender’ on Successes in Military
Diplomacy,” Xinhua, December 29, 2003; China’s National Defense
in 2004, p. 44; China’s National Defense in 2006, p. 56.
59. Finkelstein and McDevitt, p. 6.
60. China’s National Defense in 2002.
61. Luo Yuan, “The ‘Sunshine-ization’ of the Chinese Military,”
Outlook Weekly, Vol. 37, September 10, 2007, pp. 42-43.
62. China’s National Defense in 2008; Li Xuanliang and Bai
Ruixue, “PRC Expert Says Joint Military Exercises Have Become
Important Channels for China-Foreign Military Exchanges,” Xinhua
in Chinese, July 19, 2009.
63. U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Defense Dictionary
of Military and Associated Terms, JP 1-02 (as amended), Washington,
DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, May 30, 2008, p. 31;
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64. China’s National Defense in 1998.
65. Andrew Scheineson, “The Shanghai Cooperation Organization,”
Washington, DC: Council on Foreign Relations, March
24, 2009, available from www.cfr.org/publications/10883/. Other
countries have observer status, including Mongolia, Iran, Pakistan,
and India.
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