Junshe Zhang

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Its name and hull number may also be inherited by future vessels, carrying forward its legacy in the PLA Navy,
The retirement of legacy warships to make way for more advanced vessels is a normal process for a major-power navy and reflects the Chinese Navy's growing combat capability,
The Harbin was the first domestically built Chinese destroyer with genuine open ocean sailing capabilities at that time,
The replacement on a Ford-class carrier already designed around electromagnetic launches not only represents a technological setback, but could also turn an attempt to reduce risk into a new source of engineering and system-integration risk,
Inviting foreign naval vessels to conduct training in waters under China's own jurisdiction is normal and reasonable. The act also demonstrates that China has sovereign rights and jurisdiction over these waters. The relevant scope of China's sovereignty and maritime rights and interests includes the territorial waters east of Taiwan island, as well as the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf,
It is wishful thinking to believe that the Taiwan military, with its current capabilities, could pursue 'independence' by force. But the DPP authorities have run out of ideas. To make separatists feel protected, they have been racking their brains to indulge them in the delusion,

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