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Hooray! China gets its first aircraft carrier

ChinaSucks

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Chinese navy takes delivery of first aircraft carrier
AFP September 23, 201211:17PM

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China's first aircraft carrier berthed at Dalian port, in northeast China's Liaoning province, with the newly painted number "16" on its sides. Source: AFP

CHINA'S first aircraft carrier has been handed over to the navy of the People's Liberation Army, state press said, amid rising tensions over disputed waters in the East and South China Seas.

The handover ceremony of the 300-metre (990-foot) ship, a former Soviet carrier called the Varyag, took place in northeast China's port of Dalian after a lengthy refitting by a Chinese shipbuilder, the Global Times reported.

During the handover ceremony the aircraft carrier raised the Chinese national flag on its mast, the PLA flag on its bow and the navy's colours on its stern, the short online report said.

A ceremony to place the ship into active service would be held sometime in the future, the paper said without elaboration.

China's defence ministry was unavailable to comment on the ceremony.

The announcement comes at a time of heightened tensions over maritime disputes in the Asia-Pacific region, where China's growing assertiveness has put it on a collision course with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines.

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China has also postponed a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties with Japan, due to a noisy territorial dispute with Tokyo over the Diaoyu Islands, known in Japanese as Senkaku.

Tensions have also risen this year with Vietnam and the Philippines over disputed islands in the South China Sea.

Beijing confirmed last year it was revamping the old Soviet ship, and has repeatedly insisted the carrier poses no threat to its neighbours and will be used mainly for training and research purposes.

But numerous sea trials of the aircraft carrier - currently only known as Number 16 - since August 2011 were met with concern from regional powers including Japan and the United States, which called on Beijing to explain why it needed an aircraft carrier.

Construction of the Varyag originally ended with the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

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China reportedly bought the carrier's immense armoured hull - with no engine, electrics or propeller - from Ukraine in 1998 and began to refit the vessel in Dalian in 2002.

The PLA - the world's largest active military - is extremely secretive about its defence programs, which benefit from a huge and expanding military budget boosted by the nation's runaway economic growth.

China's military budget officially reached $US106 billion ($101 billion) in 2012, an 11.2 per cent increase.

According to a report issued by the Pentagon in May, Beijing is pouring money into advanced air defences, submarines, anti-satellite weapons and anti-ship missiles that could all be used to deny an adversary access to strategic areas, such as the South China Sea.

China's real defence spending amounts to between $US120 to $US180 billion, the report said.

 

Froggy

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When hundreds of millions are still starving in China?

Kanina, its one thing to heap praises to your PAP but for you to make a stupid statement like this without any proof really makes yourself look so dumb, so low in IQ, so like a frog in a well. Have you even traveled to China? Hundreds of millions starving in China, what dumbfuck you are.


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Jlokta

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Kanina, its one thing to heap praises to your PAP but for you to make a stupid statement like this without any proof really makes yourself look so dumb, so low in IQ, so like a frog in a well. Have you even traveled to China? Hundreds of millions starving in China, what dumbfuck you are.

Chill bro, Kinana has his head stuck inside old fart's ass most of the time. It's not surprising he still thinks China has millions starving just like how sinkapoor is a barren land in 1965.
 
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sta1100

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USA/UK/Japan all jealous at China.
All other country really dont care much.
Well done China, to show the world that we Chinese are not weak, the Jap need the US to protect them and the US need the $$$ for their economy, they will crate a fear that PLA is a threat. And by doing so they will buy weapon from them and they will suck $$$ from the Jap
As for the Brit are too far and no $$$, they can’t even take care of themselves.
China will not be a threat to any one or any country they just want to protect themselves
 

Jah_rastafar_I

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Wah china so powerful. Hooray! But better not say like this la not good in this forum. I better write it like this. Japanese are good. Japanese ppl are polite you know.
 

congo9

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Wah china so powerful. Hooray! But better not say like this la not good in this forum. I better write it like this. Japanese are good. Japanese ppl are polite you know.

Japanese AV are the best.

As for the PRC aircraft carrier, can it work in the 1st place ?
 

cleareyes

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Well done China, to show the world that we Chinese are not weak, the Jap need the US to protect them and the US need the $$$ for their economy, they will crate a fear that PLA is a threat. And by doing so they will buy weapon from them and they will suck $$$ from the Jap
As for the Brit are too far and no $$$, they can’t even take care of themselves.
China will not be a threat to any one or any country they just want to protect themselves

I wonder why do you celebrate when mainland Chinese had always deemed oversea chinese as traitors and inferiros.

You enjoy been spitted at and swallow their spits?
 

Kinana

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This is a trial carrier, not the real thing yet. They will build a real one only after operating this n gaining experience from this carrier. In the meantime, hundreds of millions starving in China
 

Jah_rastafar_I

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Kanina, its one thing to heap praises to your PAP but for you to make a stupid statement like this without any proof really makes yourself look so dumb, so low in IQ, so like a frog in a well. Have you even traveled to China? Hundreds of millions starving in China, what dumbfuck you are.

Good for you to fuck up this kinana. This nigger is typing shit as usual.
 
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