No Substitute for Experience: Chinese Antipiracy Operations in the Gulf of Aden

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Abstract : The twenty-sixth of December 2012 marked an important date in Chinese military history the fourth anniversary of China s furthest and most extensive naval operations to date, the ongoing antipiracy deployments in the Gulf of Aden. In the first-ever simultaneous three-fleet public display, China s North Sea Fleet, East Sea Fleet, and South Sea Fleet all held open day activities. 1 The guided-missile destroyers Qingdao, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen and guided-missile frigate Zhoushan, together with their associated helicopters and personnel, were visited by more than eight thousand people from all sectors of the society at the port cities after which they are named.2 Over the past four years, the People s Liberation Army Navy has deployed nearly ten thousand personnel on thirty-seven warships with twenty-eight helicopters in thirteen task forces.3 Over the course of more than five hundred operations, these forces have protected more than five thousand commercial vessels Chinese and

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