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Northeast China (Reuters)– China launched its second aircraft carrier Wednesday morning at the Dalian shipyard, northeast China’s Liaoning Province. The new carrier, the first built in China, was moved from a dry dock into the water at a launch ceremony that started at about 09:00. It is China’s second aircraft carrier after “Liaoning,” a refitted Soviet Union-made carrier that was commissioned to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy in 2012. China began building its second […]
LIAONING PROVINCE, China (Reuters) — China on Wednesday (April 26) launched its first domestically built aircraft carrier, which will join an existing one bought second-hand from the Ukraine, amid rising tensions over North Korea and worries about Beijing’s assertiveness in the South China Sea. China’s state broadcaster CCTV aired the footage of the carrier at the launching ceremony on Wednesday morning. State media said the carrier, designed in China and built in the northeast port […]
