Partnership on the high seas
Journal: Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Year: 2019

On the occasion of the 70th founding anniversary of China's national navy, a big naval parade with more than 30 Chinese ships sailed off the coast of Qingdao. A few days later, on 29 April 2019, the 'Joint Sea 2019' Russian-Chinese bilateral naval exercise began. In numbers, China's navy now has the world's biggest fleet - also thanks to decades of Russian naval armament. From Beijing's point of view, however, the Chi­nese armed forces have a serious shortcoming: a lack of operational experience