Report Stirs Anticipation Of Chinese Carrier Plan

By Bradley Perrett perrett@aviationweek.com
BEIJING

A Chinese state document has referred to the government having “put forward” a plan in 2009 to build aircraft carriers, adding to widespread expectations that such a program is in hand or imminent.

The Sunday Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper that obtained the document, presents it as the first official confirmation of a carrier program, but the wording seems ...

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