Hsu said the Fujian’s mission would be to offset the air superiority of the US and its allies in the western Pacific and East Asia and equip the PLA with greater operational freedom. The ship, China’s third aircraft carrier and the first designed domestically, marks a leap in Beijing’s pursuit of projecting armed force far beyond its shores – part of leader Xi Jinping’s goal of making the People’s Liberation Army a “world-class military” by the middle of the century.įoreign defence officials and analysts said the Fujian’s test runs and entry into service would offer clues as to how quickly China can catch up with the US amid intensifying competition and Beijing’s growing military pressure on Taiwan. The Fujian, seen here at its launch, can dispatch planes deep into Pacific territory. ![]() ![]() ![]() Taipei | Smoke rising from the chimney of a huge warship moored at Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai this month was the clearest sign yet that the Fujian, China’s newest aircraft carrier, was getting ready to sail.Īfter sheds on the warship’s deck were dismantled over the past few months, “it has started testing its propulsion system”, said Hsu Yen-chi, a researcher at the Council on Strategic and War Gaming Studies think-tank in Taipei.
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