Russia's state-run propaganda machine claims China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) will become a true "blue water" navy with an international presence by the 2050s.

It assumes PLAN "has accomplished the periodic goal of controlling the first island chain," or the first chain of major archipelagos out from the East Asian continental mainland coast.

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The first island chain consists of the Kuril Islands; Japan; the Ryukyu Islands belonging to Japan; Taiwan; northern Philippines and Borneo. The first island chain, therefore, extends from the Kamchatka Peninsula in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south

China views the first island chain as an area it must secure by destroying American bases, aircraft and aircraft carrier groups inside it. The aim of the China's first island chain doctrine is to seal off the Yellow Sea, South China Sea and East China Sea inside an arc running from the Aleutians in the north to Borneo in the south.

Russian propaganda also said China will achieve "a military presence and operations in the second island chain region before 2020, and establish an ocean-going Navy that can carry out missions at any point of oceans around the world by 2050."

The second island chain extends from Japan's Ogasawara Islands and Volcano Islands in the north to the Mariana Islands (which is United States territory) in the south.

Russian propaganda also claims PLAN has "enormous overall strength with more than 700 surface vessels and submarines."

It noted PLAN remained weak for a long time after the People's Republic of China was founded. The rapid build-up of PLAN in recent years might be a "compensation" for its slow development over the past few decades.

The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) believes it now has the quantitative and qualitative advantages needed to send its planes on regular combat patrols over the first island chain it must secure to be able to attack U.S. Navy warships and their bases among U.S. allies in Southeast Asia.

PLAAF also said it will organize its aviation units for regular "far-sea training" beyond the first island chain. It noted its planes have flown patrols over the First Island Chain since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in November 2012.

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