Yin Zhuo

Yin Zhuo (尹卓), given name Zhuo, surname Yin, born September 1945, is an ethnic Han Rear Admiral in the Navy of the People's Republic of China, and a committee member of the eleventh Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.^[1]

Yin Zhuo was born in September 1945 of father Ming Liang Yin (尹明亮), a vice commissar of the People's Liberation Army in Fuzhou, China.^[1] Yin Zhuo is a member of the Communist Party of China. Yin was educated at the Université de Paris and the French Naval Academy.^[2]

Yin Zhuo was the director of the consultative committee for the informatization of the Chinese Navy during the eleventh Chinese People's consultative conference.^[3]

Yin Zhuo is most notable for statements that China should establish an offshore base in order to curtail piracy in Somalia.^[2] In his capacity as researcher, Yin has accused the United States of sparking an arms race through its use of missile defence systems in the Asia-Pacific region, to the detriment of developing countries with limited budgets,^[4] issued warnings over the firing of live rounds as a warning during the Senkaku Islands dispute,^[5] and contributed to the growing debate over the international use of the Arctic by reinforcing it as a universal common, over which sovereignty cannot be claimed.^[6]

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