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Chinese Navy Ship 568 and Japanese Protral Plane Warning Each Other Around Diaoyu Island

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China has received 20 Russian 76mm AK-176 naval guns in 2008-2015, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute`s (SIPRI) arms transfer database. Russia signed the contract with China to supply 24 AK-176 naval guns to the Asian country in 2004 and the related deliveries were started in 2008. The gun are intended for 24 Type-054A (Jiangkai II) frigates being built by China. As of late 2015, China received 20 AK-176 guns under the aforementioned contract.

In 2007-2012, Russia supplied to China three more AK-176 naval guns for Type-071 (Yuzhao) amphibious transport docks.

China has acquired various Russian-produced naval equipment in large quantities. In 2004 Russia signed the contract with China to supply 96 MR-90 (NATO reporting name: Front Dome) fire control radars to be installed on the Type-054A frigates and to be integrated with the HHQ-16 naval surface-to-air missiles systems. The deliveries of the MR-90s were started in 2008. As of late 2015, the Asian country received 80 such radars, according to the Stockholm Institute.

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navyreco said:

China's PLAN Received 20 AK-176 Naval Gun Systems from Russia in 2008-2015

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China on Saturday announced the country's lowest defense budget increase in six years in the wake of rising economic headwinds and last year's massive drawdown of service people.

According to a budget report to the national legislature annual session, the government plans to raise the 2016 defense budget by 7.6 percent to 954 billion yuan (about 146 billion U.S. dollars).

The increase last year was 10.1 percent.

The fresh raise will make the world's second largest economy the second largest defense spender, both next to the

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which, in the exact words of U.S. President

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, spends more on military "than the next eight nations combined."


Obama proposed a 534-billion dollar defense budget package for the 2016 fiscal year, about 3.6 times China's budget this year. This year's new increase will do little to close that gap.

China's military expenditure had seen a five-year run of double-digit increases between 2011 and 2015. The country saw the defense budget growing by 7.5 percent in 2010.

Friday's report did not offer further breakdown of the figure nor explain the rationale behind the abated growth, although some officials and military experts have pointed to slowing growth in the world's second largest economy.

Maj. Gen. Chen Zhou linked the forecast-beating slowdown with China's "economic and social status quo" in an interview with Xinhua.

"A single-digit rise following years of double-digit growth is a prudent, moderate move," said Chen, also an

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deputy, adding that there are no "hidden" expenses in the country's military spending.

Faced with increasing economic headwinds with uncertainty clouding global recovery, China saw its economy expanding 6.9 percent year on year in 2015, the slowest in a quarter of a century, weighed down by a property market downturn, falling trade and weak factory activity.

The government put this year's growth target between 6.5 and 7 percent, compared with last year's "approximately 7 percent" goal.

The cut of 300,000 service people announced by Chinese President

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in September might also have helped drive down the defense budget growth figure.

China will make its military more revolutionary, modern and better structured, strengthen in a coordinated way military preparedness on all fronts and for all scenarios and work meticulously to ensure combat readiness and border, coastal and air defense control, Premier Li Keqiang said in the government work report to the national legislature annual session.

Logistics and equipment development will be stepped up and the military's size and structure will undergo reforms, he said.

To modernize management and administration, the PLA inaugurated a General Command for the army, the PLA Rocket Force and the PLA Strategic Support Force in December. In February, it replaced seven military area commands with five PLA theater commands.

"The PLA is in the key phase of deepening reforms," Maj. Gen. Luo Yuan said.

"A moderate increase in the military budget is necessary," he said.

Both Chen and Luo shrugged off concerns from Western observers over China's growing military spending.

Though recent rises in defense budgets surpassed

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growth, China's military expenditure in 2015 accounted for 1.33 percent of GDP, well below the world's average of 2.6 percent.

The per capita military spending is even less, representing only about 5.6 percent that of the U.S., 11 percent that of Britain and 25 percent that of

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, Chen said.

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A heavily armed Chinese patrol vessel on March 19 ordered a smaller Indonesian Navy vessel to free a Chinese fishing boat caught fishing illegally in the Natuna Sea, which is in the Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone.

While Indonesian authorities were forced to escort the fishing boat outside their waters, local media reported that eight crew members of the fishing boat were detained and taken to Indonesia.

Infuriated by the act, the Indonesian ministry of foreign affairs sent a protest note to China.

Local media also reported that this was not the first this has happened as in March 2013 a similar incident occurred where Indonesian authorities were, again, forced to comply with Chinese due to the size and armament of the Chinese vessel.

The incident in Indonesia happened just five days after the Argentine Navy

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a Chinese boat fishing illegally in Argentine waters. The fishing boat refused to stop after being caught and reportedly even tried to ram an Argentine Navy vessel. The authorities then shot into different sections of the boat which caused it to sink.

To remind, China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea have caused tensions in the region as the state claims most of the territory.

U.S. Navy officials, in response to China’s militarization of the South China Sea, said they would

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in the contested region. The U.S. Navy patrols have previously caused tensions when Chinese officials claimed that U.S. Navy destroyers, USS Lassen and USS Curtis Wilbur,

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of Chinese artificially-built islands in the South China Sea.

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Forbes said:

Indonesia protest breach of sovereignty after coastguards clash

China’s fishing fleet got itself involved in a second diplomatic incident for the second time in a week–and this time, it used force to secure a better outcome.

Only days after Argentina sank a Chinese fishing boat that it alleged was fishing illegally in its waters, a Chinese coastguard ship intervened to stop Indonesia impounding another trawler that Jakarta said was fishing illegally in the Natuna Sea, an area between Peninsular Malaysia and the Malaysian province of Sarawak on Borneo island.

An Indonesian patrol boat had arrested the trawler’s crew after firing warning shots in the air when it approached the Chinese trawler. It was towing the Kway Fey away when the Chinese coastguard rammed the trawler, allowing it to break free and escape, according to the Indonesian government.

The incident is another worrying sign of China’s increased willingness to assert its interests by force in a neighborhood that its views as its backyard. It also comes only weeks after Beijing deployed anti-aircraft missile batteries to a disputed chain of islands in the South China Sea, one of the world’s busiest and most strategically important sea-lanes.

Indonesia is not embroiled in rival claims with China over the South China Sea and has instead seen itself as an “honest broker” in disputes between China and the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.

But the incident has angered it and led to its questioning of its work to promote peace.

“We feel interrupted and sabotaged in our efforts,” fisheries minister Susi Pudjiastuti told reporters in Jakarta after meeting Chinese embassy officials to discuss the incident.

“We may take it to the international tribunal of the law of the sea,” Pudjiastuti said.

Indonesia’s Deputy navy chief, Arie Henrycus Sembiring, told the news conference the navy would send bigger vessels to back up its patrol boats in the region.

On Monday, China‘s foreign ministry repeated that the fishing boat was operating in “traditional Chinese fishing grounds,” again demanded the fishermen be released and added the Chinese coastguard vessel did not enter Indonesian waters.

Pudjiastuti said the eight detained Chinese fishermen would be processed in accordance with Indonesian law.

China and Indonesia do not contest the sovereignty of the Natuna islands and the seas around them: both agree they are part of Indonesia. A Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman reiterated that on Monday.

The incident isn’t the first of its kind, even between China and Indondesia. In March 2013, armed Chinese vessels confronted an Indonesian fisheries patrol boat and demanded the release of Chinese fishermen who had been apprehended in Natuna waters.

Similarly, in 2010, a Chinese maritime enforcement vessel compelled an Indonesian patrol boat to release another illegal Chinese trawler.

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