Chinese admiral floats idea of overseas naval bases

2009/12/30 02:02:25 @Reuters: World News

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese rear admiral has urged the nation to set up navy supply bases overseas in an interview posted on the Ministry of Defense website after China paid ransom to free a ship held for nine weeks by Somali pirates. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=TJGW9sU9wyI:dKNlns4fJ6g:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=TJGW9sU9wyI:dKNlns4fJ6g:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=TJGW9sU9wyI:dKNlns4fJ6g:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=TJGW9sU9wyI:dKNlns4fJ6g:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=TJGW9sU9wyI:dKNlns4fJ6g:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/TJGW9sU9wyI" height="1" width="1"/
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