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The Chinese navy has fulfilled its long-held dream of breaking through the "first island chain blockade", and its vessels have gained access to the Pacific Ocean through various waterways along the route, military observers said on Thursday.
They made the remarks in interviews with China Daily to mark the 86th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
"The Chinese navy has the capability to cut the first island chain into several pieces," said Du Wenlong, a senior researcher at the PLA's Academy of Military Science.
"Now the chain is fragmented."
The "first island chain" refers to the first major archipelagos off the East Asian continental mainland, including the Japanese archipelago, Ryukyu Islands, China's Taiwan and the northern Philippines.
In the 1950s, Washington came to regard the chain as an important barrier to contain China and other communist countries.
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