Beijing seeks lead role in piracy fight

Reported by S.China Morning Post on Monday, 9 November 2009 (on November 9, 2009)

China has formally requested to take a lead role in co-ordinating international anti-piracy operations off Somalia - an unprecedented move that would be an expansion of its historic deployment of warships to the Indian Ocean.

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