Don't know how they can blockade anything. Since most commercial vessels fly flags of other countries due to tax purposes..
Maybe China needs to consider operation for Andaman&Nicobar Island as first step.
There is widespread discussion about China & India conflict in both China & India right now, even for average layman folks.
- If China can get a hand on one of many small islands from Myanmar Mergui archiepago and establish as naval base, then it can counter india Andaman island
Myanmar is a politically and geographically better choice for China to establish an overseas Naval Base. What are the chances that Myanmar would be inclined to this proposition? What more, would there be any indication that China would move ahead with such a plan. Ideally, it would work in everyone's favor, if Myanmar and Bangladesh can resolve their differences and join the SCO at sometime in the future. It would solidify China's strategic interests in South East Asia.
do you know the Chinese Military has been on Great Coco Island, Myanmar for years? (LOL I think I even put it on my Facebook this year, as it's as exotic place as it gets while viewed from the middle of Europe)
- If China can get a hand on one of many small islands from Myanmar Mergui archiepago and establish as naval base, then it can counter india Andaman island
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Maybe China needs to consider operation for Andaman&Nicobar Island as first step.
There is widespread discussion about China & India conflict in both China & India right now, even for average layman folks.
do you know the Chinese Military has been on Great Coco Island, Myanmar for years? (LOL I think I even put it on my Facebook this year, as it's as exotic place as it gets while viewed from the middle of Europe)
14°7'58"N 93°22'8"E
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now measured the distance to Port Blair:
Is it one of your China Threat pet theories? Beer fueled Pub Fictions?do you know the Chinese Military has been on Great Coco Island, Myanmar for years?
LOL! isn't it great to have followers?Is it one of your China Threat pet theories? Beer fueled Pub Fictions?
Chinese Military? For years?
Your approach is very subtle and imperceptible, and yet here we are, a decade old piece of China Threat theory, alive and well, from the middle of Europe.
The maritime reconnaissance and electronic intelligence station on Great Coco Island in the Bay of Bengal, some 300 kms south of the Burmese mainland, is the most important Chinese electronic intelligence installation in Myanmar [Burma]. The Chinese Army is also building a base on Small Coco Island in the Alexandra Channel between the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Sea north of India's Andaman Islands. These two islands, which have been leased to China since 1994, are located at a crucial point in traffic routes between the Bay of Bengal and the Strait of Malacca. The Coco Islands are thus an ideal location for for monitoring Indian naval and missile launch facilities in Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the south and movements of the Indian Navy and other navies throughout the eastern Indian Ocean.
Construction of the Great Coco Island station began in late 1992 with the emplacement of a 45-50m antenna tower, radar sites and other electronic facilities forming a comprehensive SIGINT collection facility. In mid-1993, some of the 70 Chinese naval personnel began operating the new radar equipment, and by the summer of 1994 the the PLA the radar and SIGINT facilities were complete and ready for use.