Re: Somali pirates and Chinese navy
Though heartless to say, but at the essence, keeping a pretty resource-less and chaotic country like Somalia as-is instead of do something about it, is the cheapest option for all powers alike: think about the political and economical costs to send in peacekeepers to have everybody settle down. There's nothing come from the ground or shore or underneath to recoup the investment.
Secondly, it gives them a viable excuse to maintain a military presence in the waters off Somalia, chances to give their personnel real-world operation and even combat experience...at least that'd be a certain for China, there's nowhere like the waters off the Gulf of Aden to give them real shakedown the new toys they're getting, and operation experience that they'd otherwise never have a chance to earn.
