And it wasn’t that long ago we met to search for that Malaysian aircraft, Flight 370. And in a vast area we are often called together to cooperate on areas of shared challenges-humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, typhoons, tsunamis, volcanoes, that ring of fire in the Asia-Pacific region, counter-piracy all around the world. We encounter each other routinely out there on the global commons. We are frequently encountering each other in an international domain, the high seas.

Greenert elaborated on these points of cooperation: and Chinese militaries and building understanding, as called for by President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping during their summit meeting at Sunnylands in California last year. Greenert said that “the navies are well suited to the task” of strengthening ties between U.S. and Chinese navies are engaged in dialogue and cooperation in a number of ways, including meetings of the heads of navy and interactions among junior officers at training locations and academies. It is not just about China … but China is a very important part of it.” He explained in some detail how the U.S.

Chair-Admiral Greenert explained the importance of the “sea services functions of power projection, sea control, maritime security, and … access.”Īdmiral Greenert, addressing the Obama administration’s “rebalance” to Asia strategy, emphasized that the rebalance “is not single dimensional. Greenert described to a Brookings audience yesterday the Navy’s maritime strategy moving forward, emphasizing the “value of presence to be where it matters, when it matters as a sea service.” In the event hosted by the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at Brookings, and moderated by Senior Fellow Michael O’Hanlon-co-director of the center and the Sydney Stein, Jr.

Citing security and fiscal changes since 2007, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan W.

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