湄公河护航是我国的首次境外执法行动。中国维护地区安全的三部曲——参与联合国维和行动、参与索马里海域护航以及此次实施湄公河水域护航,其中既有着共同的特点,也有着递进的逻辑关系。有论者认为,中国参与四国湄公河武装护航行动,在某种意义上很可能代表了中国对外战略的变化方向。 Mekong escort is our first overseas enforcement action. China’s trilogy of safeguarding regional security - participating in UN peacekeeping operations, participating in the escort of Somali waters and carrying out escort in the Mekong waters, has both common features and progressive logical relations. Some commentators believe that China’s participation in the armed escort operations of the Mekong River in the four countries may, in a sense, probably represent the direction of the change in China’s foreign strategy.