It is in part a matter of increasing the country's sense of security, by dominating the maritime approaches to its long coast, and securing sea lanes to the open Pacific.
Russia, Canada and Denmark, prompted in part by years of warming and the ice retreat this year, ratcheted up rhetoric and actions aimed at securing sea routes and seabed resources.
Keeping its head above water The traffic police Fata Fergana Here comes trouble Chasing ghosts ReprintsFor China's strategic planners, securing sea lanes against hostile powers has become perhaps the chief preoccupation.
For one, protecting the Persian Gulf and securing sea trade routes for oil such as the Strait of Malacca costs between $70 and $100 billion per year [7].
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As C. Raja Mohan, an international relations professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, points out, China has started building a circle of road-and-port connections in India's neighboring countries, and it has begun to eye a role in the Indian Ocean, as its thirst for natural resources makes it more important to secure the sea lanes.
Before the orphans of the Holocaust could finally reach haven in the new state of Israel, Jewish warriors had to fight a bloody battle for Haifa Port, they had to hold the new country against the invading Arab armies, and Jewish warships had to secure the sea lanes from Europe and Cyprus.
"We are only promoting the secure Red Sea resorts in western media".
As an island, there is a particular case for the UK to have carriers, says Lambert. "If we're not secure at sea we risk starvation.
