ABSTRACT
While most of the previous chapters have discussed naval coalitions during war, naval coalitions do not always involve ships cooperating at sea. They can also include one naval power assisting a coalition partner by denying maritime access to an enemy. A largely overlooked success of the post-World War II Sino-Soviet naval coalition was the Soviet denial of Nationalist access to the Liaodong Peninsula’s ports of Dalian (also called Dairen) and Lushun (Port Arthur), Manchuria. Conversely, the USSR allowed Chinese Communist forces to enter and be supplied by sea, which gave the CCP a clear advantage during the Civil War, whose main theater soon became Manchuria.
