DefenceTalkRecently the official website of America’s Popular Science magazine released a report on the latest news about China’s first domestically built aircraft carrier titled “China’s new carrier gets a ski ramp.” A photo was also released, saying that “the ship’s ski jump soon to be welded to the carrier’s front”. In a recent interview with […]https://www.defencetalk.com/second-china-made-aircraft-carrier-may-adopt-emals-67587/

DefenceTalkChina will take part in a regular US-led naval exercise starting next month, a top US commander said Friday, despite tensions over Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea. The United States will host multinational naval drills called the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) — billed as the world’s largest — off Hawaii […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-to-join-us-led-naval-exercise-us-official-67419/

DefenceTalkAt a time when the PLA Navy has become an indispensable force in safeguarding China’s interests, the nation should further strengthen its maritime capabilities, a senior naval officer said. “A strong maritime force is one of the decisive factors in whether the country will be fully capable of protecting its interests,” said Rear Admiral Du […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pla-officer-navy-needs-more-punch-67126/

DefenceTalkChina’s second aircraft carrier, which is now under construction, will focus on military operations rather than training and technological experiments, according to a senior military researcher. “This carrier will have different missions than those for the Liaoning (the country’s first aircraft carrier),” Senior Captain Zhang Junshe with the People’s Liberation Army Naval Military Studies Research […]https://www.defencetalk.com/chinas-second-aircraft-carrier-to-have-military-focus-66240/

DefenceTalkChina is building a modern and regionally powerful navy with a limited but growing capability for conducting operations beyond China’s near-seas region. Observers of Chinese and U.S. military forces view China’s improving naval capabilities as posing a potential challenge in the Western Pacific to the U.S. Navy’s ability to achieve and maintain control of blue-water […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-naval-modernization-implications-for-us-navy-capabilities-3-64983/

DefenceTalkChina has confirmed that it is building a unique aircraft carrier, and that it may even be nuclear-powered. On Thursday, huanqiu.com, the Chinese-language version of local Global Times, published an internal document of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation. The report states that the company’s “priority missions” are to build nuclear submarines and an aircraft carrier. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-building-new-aircraft-carrier-possibly-nuclear-powered-64953/

DefenceTalkChina’s determination to become what President Xi Jinping called a “great maritime power” and how the United States should respond has received a lot of media attention. Recently, Rear Admiral Michael McDevitt, now a senior fellow at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), in a recent paper delivered at a two-day CNA conference on Chinese […]https://www.defencetalk.com/chinas-growing-maritime-power-may-look-like-mini-us-navy-by-2020-64951/

DefenceTalkChina is building its second aircraft carrier, a senior naval officer has told media, the most explicit confirmation yet of a widely expected move that will boost Beijing’s maritime power. China’s first aircraft carrier was a 300-metre (1,000-foot) Soviet-era vessel bought from Ukraine and commissioned in September 2012 — at the time a milestone for […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-building-second-aircraft-carrier-pla-63509/

DefenceTalkA firm has won a contract to supply cabling for a second Chinese aircraft carrier, comments by local authorities suggested in the latest sign that Beijing is boosting its maritime power, although news of the development was swiftly deleted online. Authorities in Changzhou said on a verified social media account that “in 2015, our city […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-building-second-aircraft-carrier-reports-62548/

DefenceTalkNamibia and China are discussing plans for a Chinese naval base in the southwest African country, the Namibian newspaper reported Tuesday, prompting an immediate denial from Beijing. The Namibian quoted a confidential letter from Namibia’s Beijing ambassador to his foreign ministry stating that a Chinese delegation would visit Windhoek for discussions “on the way forward […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-planning-naval-base-in-namibia-report-62047/