China's New Challenge to the US Navy in the Pacific

China's growing sea power...

The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning at sea in April.

In April, on the 69th anniversary of the founding of China's Navy, the country's first domestically built aircraft carrier stirred from its berth in the port city of Dalian on the Bohai Sea, tethered to tugboats for a test of its seaworthiness, Steven Lee Myers reports on nytimes.com.

"China's first homegown aircraft carrier just moved a bit, and the United States, Japan and India squirmed," a military news websited crowed, referring to the three nations China viewws as its main rivals, Myers wrote.

Not long ago, such boasts would have been dismissed as the bravado of a second-string military. No longer, Myers noted.

For more on China's growing seapower: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/world/asia/china-navy-aircraft-carrier-pacific.html

Photo: nytimes.com.

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