Chinese landing ship Kunlun Shan

On 9 March 2014, the ship was deployed in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. In September 2016, the ship took part in combined naval exercises with the Russian Navy off the coasts of Guangdong. In 2019, the ship took part in anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden. On the return trip in June, it had a four-day stopover in Sydney Harbour, Australia as part of a three-ship taskforce along with the Type 054A frigate Xuchang and the Type 903 replenishment ship Luomahu. According to then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison, the naval visit was invited by the Australian Government, but the neither the New South Wales government nor the Australian public were informed ahead of the taskforce's arrival, which triggered a media frenzy among the conservative Australian media and politicians on the backdrop of rising geopolitical tension in Sino-Australian relations. == References ==