Xinhua News Agency interviewed Rear Admiral Yin Zhuo and the military official said China is building aircraft carriers not just to protect its interests in South China Seas but other offshore areas as well.
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“Protecting the economic, political status and occupational safety of overseas Chinese is paramount to safeguarding China’s domestic economic development and its reform and opening-up,” Yin said.