China Working to Dominate Sea Routes as US Loses Interest

Aug 21, 2014 | Gulf News
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The oceans will be the world’s 21st century battlefields as new and old economic powers will struggle to dominate the maritime trade routes along which 90 per cent of global trade moves, and use their navies to deliver power to where they seek to achieve political or military gain. They also have an eye on the minerals and other treasures under the seas that cover two thirds of the globe.

China has a clear understanding that it needs to control the seas and it has been working to a global blue water strategy for decades. For the rest, it is concerned that the US does not have a similar consensus over its national strategy and is simply trying to stretch out its Cold War navy into an uncertain future.