https://youtu.be/5fSAuJfcdhw
French Navy's 'Clemenceau 25' deployment to the Indo Pacific
Rear Admiral Jacques Mallard - Commander of the French CSG - introduces the mission "Clemenceau 2025" that will take the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its escort to the Indo-Pacific. The French CSG also called TF 473 will sail through the Eastern Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea for a 6 months (or so) mission before heading back.

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At a time where territorial disputes get more intense in the Indo-Pacific, especially in the South China Sea, the French CSG is meant to reaffirms the French presence in the area as France owns overseas territories there, and to stress the need for an open and free Indo Pacific.

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