These 300 troops are anti-pirate personnel protecting Chinese workers there.However,i though China didn’t have a blue water navy? So how did they get there troops over there? By Air force? Also how do the Chinese government maintain the troops?
How Did China Deploy 300 Troops In Somalia?
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You don’t need a “blue water navy” to transport 2 companies of troops. You can hire a small freighter for that.
These 300 troops are anti-pirate personnel protecting Chinese workers there.However,i though China didn’t have a blue water navy? So how did they get there troops over there? By Air force? Also how do the Chinese government maintain the troops?
You don’t need anything other than run-of-the-mill passenger/cargo aircraft or ships to move troops and equipment around the world.
I was just reading that Ireland – a country with a population less than 0.3% that of China – recently brought home over 500 troops and 100 armoured vehicles from deployment in Africa using nothing more than small coastal patrol vessels and civilian passenger aircraft. If a tiny country that only spends about U.S.$2 billion-a-year on it’s military can do it, then the Chinese shouldn’t have much difficulty deploying half that number of people.