CHINA-SOMALIA-PIRACY-UN

The perimeter of the Yalong Bay naval base in Sanya, southern China's Hainan island on December 26, 2008, where a fleet of Chinese naval three vessels - two destroyers and a supply ship would set sail for Africa, in the nation's first potential combat mission beyond its territorial waters in centuries. Ship in the picture is not one of the vessels departing for Somalia. CHINA OUT GETTY OUT AFP PHOTO