By Andrew P. Napolitano
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Independent voices from the TWT Communities
China is expanding its military reach by sending, for the first time, a marine unit of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to train with another country in an upcoming exercise with Thailand's armed forces.
"A central element of Bangkok's hedging strategy is to keep its military alliance with the United States well lubricated, while at the same time expanding defense ties with China," Ian Storey, a fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, has written.
In a 2008 article, Mr. Storey also noted that "the number of Thai military officers attending educational courses at the National Defense University in Beijing has increased since 2001, as has the number of PLA officers studying at Thai military academies."
