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...drama with more far-reaching geopolitical consequences may be brewing in the Indian Ocean, involving two of the nations that have sent warships to fight the Somali buccaneers: longtime rivals India and China. New Delhi has had at least one ship in the Gulf of Aden since October, and late last year, with great fanfare, China deployed two warships to the same area. The ships have been active in interdicting pirates and coming to the aid of commercial ships in apparent distress - though they are not part of the U.S.-led Combined Task Force 151 (usually composed...
Both countries are hugely dependent on the petroleum deliveries that course through the Gulf of Aden and Strait of Hormuz to their ports. Defending those supplies is one reason both are building bigger and bigger navies. China's navy, with more than 300 ships, may in fact soon surpass the U.S.'s as the world's largest. Beijing is certainly sparing little to stock its ships with armaments. India, in the meantime, is acquiring several nuclear-powered submarines to augment its 155 military vessels in the ocean that bears its name...
...member nations collectively contribute millions of troops, trillions of dollars of material and services, and entire libraries of intelligence information to a central command in Brussels, Belgium, while NATO military units are involved in regional security and peacekeeping developments in the Western Balkans, the Gulf of Aden, and Afghanistan...
...financial crisis hit, Merkel seemed to wilt, clueless as to how to respond. But now she is moving out in front again, showing that Germany is keen to play an active role in resolving international crises. Germany was quick to supply troops to fight pirates in the Gulf of Aden, and Merkel has been urging a cease-fire in Gaza and has taken the lead in European efforts to deflate the gas war between Russia and Ukraine. Germany is not worried about going without heat - its gas reserves cover about 25% of its annual gas consumption - but when gas deliveries...
...worst humanitarian disasters; more than a third of the country's 9.5 million people now rely on emergency food aid. Much of that aid isn't getting through because pirates operating off the Somali coast have perfected the business of seizing ships on their way to the Gulf of Aden. The country has also become a no-go zone for foreign aid workers, who are easy kidnapping targets. (See pictures of Somalia's pirates...