Co-opt Chinese anti-piracy

POST: Chinese Commandos Train To Kill Pirates, Strategy Page, November 26, 2008

Per my recent column, this piracy issue represents an early and easy "win" that we should engineer for the PLA (Navy) as part of our long-term strategy to draw it out into our global "team of rivals"--a big theme of Great Powers.

(Thanks: Rob Johnson)

Comments

[Louis Heberlein]

Didn't England train and share navy technology with Imperial Japan at the end of 19th Century so Japan would serve as a regional partner in the effort to bring global civilization to the Gap of that time .... and help box in those nasty Czar guys? ;-)

[Mark in Texas]

It seems like it might be easier to just give India the aircraft carrier Kittyhawk when it comes time to decommission it next year. The Russians have been building a smaller and less capable aircraft carrier for India for years and just recently came back asking for another couple of billion dollars and announcing that it will be years before the thing is finished.

Also give India a couple of hundred of the F-4s that are baking in the desert at Davis-Monthan. They won't threaten Pakistan's F-16s but they are navy planes capable of catapault take off and arrested landing so they can assert control over the area where the pirates are operating.

What the hell, it's called the Indian Ocean. It's got their name on it, would it be such a bad thing if the Indians actually took ownership?