(Sonstiges) Chinas Trägerprogramm

[Erich]

auf der Varjag werden inzwischen Rettungsgeräte wie Rettungsflöße installiert. Da solche Dinge im Hafen nicht benötigt werden, dürfte die erste Werfterprobungsfahrt kurz bevor stehen.
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Smiles in Beijing and aircraft carriers in southern seas

12:24 13/07/2011
RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev

The Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, has virtually completed his four-day visit to China that started on July 10. He will visit Chinese military installations in Shandong and Zhejiang, but the political portion of the trip is over, and China has little reason to be happy about the visit.
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Today, China does not have a fleet of aircraft carriers like the United States. This year, it will launch the aircraft carrier Shi Lang - formerly, the Soviet Varyag, which the Ukrainians sold to Beijing as scrap. China will commission two similar ships and two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers between 2015 and 2020 - exactly the timeframe in which the Chinese economy is expected to overtake the U.S., should nothing go wrong. They will be deployed in the southern seas, including the Indian Ocean.

Meanwhile, as long as the United States maintains its edge in the Pacific, it will take full advantage of it, no matter what Mullen may have negotiated in Beijing.

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