An RAN sailor shows his PLA Navy counterparts damage control equipment during a tour around HMAS Melbourne during the ship’s 2018 port visit to Zhanjiang, China (Defence Imagery)
By James Laurenceson and Xi Chen*
Chinese ship visits to Australia don’t always generate alarm and controversy. Last month, Hobart hosted the arrival of Chinese ice-breaker Xue Long 2, more than five years after its previous visit. Xue Long 1 visited last March.
