Senior Colonel Huang Xueping, spokesman for China's Ministry of National Defense, told the FT an anti-piracy mission was “still in the consideration stage”. But he said: “There will be an announcement very soon.”
Since late October, more than 30 ships have been attacked by pirates based in Somalia and 12 vessels captured. These include a Chinese fishing vessel with 30 crew seized off the coast of Yemen on Tuesday.
It was freed yesterday by a “multilateral force”, according to Xinhua, the official news agency.
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