As one of the United States' security partners in the Far East, Taiwan is striving for the right to take part in the US-led RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific) naval exercises in 2014, reports our sister newspaper China Times.
Held every two years by the US Pacific Command in Hawaii, RIMPAC is the world's largest multinational maritime exercise. When it was first held in 1971, the Soviet Union was considered the primary adversary for the US and its allies. Now China is the rising power in the region, and the 2012 exercises saw the participation for the first time of three ships from the Russian Pacific Fleet.
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