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"Indeed, it is too facile to suggest that China is acquiring naval power as a means to the end of regional or perhaps global hegemony. Empires are often not sought consciously. Rather, as states become stronger, they develop needs and - counter-intuitively - a whole new set of insecurities that lead them to expand in an organic fashion"
(Extract from “China’s Arrival: A Strategic Framework for a Global Relationship”, Edited by Abraham Denmark and Nirav Patel, Center for a New American Security, 9/2009)
