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75. Ibid.; China’s National Defense in 2006.
76. China’s National Defense in 2006; “U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander
Visits China,” U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs, November
13, 2006, available from www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_
id=26570; “Chinese and US navies stage first-ever joint maritime
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from english.chinamil.com.cn/site2/special-reports/2006-09/22/
content_596467.htm.
77. China’s National Defense in 2008.
78. The PLAN first participated in Aman 07 along with ships
from only eight other countries. “‘Aman 09’ naval exercises in
Pakistan,” Press TV, September 13, 2009.
79. “‘Guangzhou’ warship returns to Sanya military port,”
PLA Daily, March 27, 2009, available from english.chinamil.com.
cn/site2/special-reports/2009-03/27/content_1705296.htm; “Second
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81. Interview with William T. Pendley (RADM, USN Retired),
former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for East
Asia and the Pacific, and Eric McVadon (RADM, USN Retired),
former Defense and Naval Attaché in Beijing and currently Director
of the Asia-Pacific Studies at the Institute for Foreign Policy
Analysis. See Frederic Vellucci, Jr., “Extending the First Line of
Defense: China’s Naval Strategy and Development Prospects,”
PLA Navy Build-up and ROK Navy-US Navy Cooperation, Seoul: Korea
Institute of Maritime Strategy, 2009, pp. 237-285. According
to Vellucci,
While there is no official U.S. Navy definition of the term
‘blue water navy.’ There is a general consensus that a
blue water navy is one that is capable of operating in one
or more locations anywhere in the world for an indefinite
amount of time. While there is little consensus with-
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