TY - BOOK AU - ARTHUR Gordon TI - PLA navy - ruling the waves and waiving the rules PY - 2023/// KW - CHINA KW - MARITIME KW - POLICY N2 - To address increasing reliance on shipping of oil, gas and other strategic resources to China, and to protect the products it exports and its growing overseas interests, Beijing has moved from a policy of near-seas defence to ones of far-seas protection, a global oceanic presence and even expansion towards the north and south poles ER -