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China deploys patrol boats on Mekong: state media
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http://news.yahoo.com/china-deploys-patrol-boats-mekong-state-media-052210019.html
China's national flag is seen flying from the back of a ship sailing down the Mekong river. China has deployed more than 300 armed police to patrol the river in boats in collaboration with Myanmar, Thailand and Laos after a deadly attack in October, according to state-run media
China's national flag is seen flying from the back of a ship sailing down the Mekong …
China has deployed more than 300 armed police to patrol the Mekong river in boats in collaboration with Myanmar, Thailand and Laos after a deadly attack in October, according to state-run media.
Two months ago, 13 Chinese sailors were killed on a section of the river south of China's border, raising concerns in Beijing for the safety of crews and cargoes sailing south through an area rife with drug warfare and smuggling.
Citing officials, the official China Daily newspaper said that Chinese police would escort 10 private cargo ships, including the boats that were attacked on October 5 by what is thought to have been a drug gang.
"The special force will serve as the first joint-patrol law enforcement team of the national border defense department, committed to safeguarding the international waterway," said public security deputy minister Meng Hongwei.
The Mekong flows through China's southwestern province of Yunnan into Southeast Asia, serving as a major trade route through several countries including Cambodia and Vietnam.
China reacted angrily to the October attack, sending patrol boats down the Mekong to retrieve 164 stranded Chinese sailors and 28 cargo ships and calling on diplomats from Thailand, Laos and Myanmar to speed up investigations.
Since then, police in Thailand have detained nine soldiers who are suspected of killing the Chinese sailors and are also thought to have links with a Myanmar drug kingpin.
6 comments:
i am a chinese and i feel shame for these ''purposely built'' partol boats...i know they are only short term measures and are converted by civil ships...but please dont but it on the news and its like telling the world that we are proud to partol the river with this junk
what a retard idea...wt are they thinking? a great wall in the front of the ship?a floating bunker? yea the great wall bit is 100mm thick how about the fucking windows? fuck corruption, where are the money?
@Unknown only three windows on the sides, seems like four on the back and front. The windows are pretty narrow(and harder to hit), and quiet likely layered/bullet-proof.
I did not understand your criticism, it is not like every single patrol-ship and speedboat the US coastguard uses is heavily armoured.
@Qasim
windoes are not bullet proof, the back of the ship is completely same as the original civil ship, only the front part they converted
The thing is HUGE, SLOW, and the windows are BIG, cant imagine wt would happen if hit by .50 machine gun not to mention RPG...
situation in the river is like vietnam, yes the PBR MK2 didnt have much armoured but it has speed and firepower, its not about comparing with the americans, but about where u are using it
never mind, just saw from the news 3 soliders in the burma partol are already killed, ALREADY
and of coz they use the same fucking ship china gave them
its a serious matter, its not like u put the name of china police or something on the junk then u are safe, those people dont care
Do river patrol boats in China get names or numbers?
Another way to look at this -- they pull the entire operations along with a HQ and C&C to include members from nations and equip them with boats in less than 6 weeks. That is impressive.
@unknown
China can not send a too intimidating force to the Mekong as that would undermine the authority of the local government in the eyes of the indigenous population.
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