It recently committed its members to working on increasing cooperation among navies and other maritime security forces in the region.
In October, the Swedish navy and maritime security forces fanned out across the vast Stockholm archipelago in search of what was suspected to be a Russian submarine that had been spotted near the Swedish capital.
Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand have agreed to host joint security force exercises to secure their maritime border and tackle issues such as illegal immigration and smuggling.
For example, even as the United States encourages an enhanced Chinese role in maritime security, Washington must remain the dominant force in the Asia Pacific in order to ensure freedom of navigation.
"We need to understand, we need to take a look at it and decide what does it mean to us for security, maritime security, freedom of navigation, and global force management," Greenert told a conference hosted by the Surface Navy Association.
The Taiwan issue is of "far-reaching significance to breaking international forces' blockade against China's maritime security..
The document states that the objective of surface force strategy is to assure control of the seas, which enables overseas access, deterrence of aggression, power projection and maritime security.
Approximately 500 of these personnel were taking part in domestic maritime security tasks.
The existing police agencies range from the preventive security force, which handles internal security matters, to separate forces of civilian police, military police, maritime police, "air police" and policewomen.
Accordingly, China has played a constructive role with regard to the piracy issue by way of (1) cooperating with the multinational task force to combating piracy and (2) simultaneously taking steps to adopt a comprehensive approach to maritime security.
Sorry, "maritime security operative".
