Will New Aircraft Carriers Lead to a Change in China's Foreign Policy?
 

According to today's Asahi Shimbun from Japan:

China to start construction of 1st aircraft carriers next year

BEIJING--China will begin construction of the country's first domestically produced aircraft carriers in Shanghai next year, with an eye to completing two mid-sized carriers by 2015, military and shipbuilding sources said.

Beijing is also expected to complete work on a never-finished former Soviet aircraft carrier moored in the northeastern port of Dalian, to provide training for carrier-based pilots and crew.

The two 50,000- to 60,000-ton carriers will rely on conventional propulsion systems, not nuclear power. They will be assigned to the People's Liberation Army Navy south sea fleet, tasked with patrolling the South China Sea, sources said.

China's carrier ambitions and the build-up of its blue-water fleet have long been of interest to Pacific nations.

For entire article:

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-...812310046.html

China hasn't fought a naval battle in several thousand years, so I suppose they should start getting on that.

You can't rule the world without a navy, but they have a little bit of ground to catch up.

i can think of many better things to spend money on. instead of humans fighting each other, how about we fight with other planets or explore space?

jeez

fuck! well looks like they r aiming to dominate the world bye bye to US Military supremacy in the near future

Maybe they should end poverty in their backyard first.

Well considering the Russians were never able to shake our subs I really don't think China will be much of a real threat anytime soon. Maybe in 20 years or so, if they can keep their economy a float.

China still faces a major issue.. They can't move their armies around the world like the US can.

Most of my Chinese shit falls about in 60 to 120 days already. You really expect me or the rest of the world to be on any sort of alert in the meantime over this. Only saving grace is that they will not hold reactors, which would scare me as like I said their shit falls apart.

What for? Where do you think all the cheap labour will come from to build these ships?

Every country has poverty in their backyard. Its all over the US.