U.S. says watching China's naval expansion closely

2009/04/19 02:56:20 @Reuters: International News

BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States would like to have a better idea about the intentions behind China's naval build-up, a senior U.S. navy officer said on Sunday, but downplayed worries over Chinese plans for an aircraft carrier. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=fby-7s4hL_k:klrl9uPzy7k:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=fby-7s4hL_k:klrl9uPzy7k:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=fby-7s4hL_k:klrl9uPzy7k:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=fby-7s4hL_k:klrl9uPzy7k:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=fby-7s4hL_k:klrl9uPzy7k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/fby-7s4hL_k" height="1" width="1"/
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