Hong Kong media: New aircraft carriers will help defend China's interests

Hong Kong's "South China Morning Post" June 22 article, the original title: The new aircraft carrier will help defend China's third aircraft carrier "Fujian Ship" to launch, allowing China to have the basic maritime capabilities to protect territory. The successful rebound missile test in China is also defensive. The United States and its allies say that such development is provocative, and it is intended to prove that their army has strengthened the legitimacy of marine and air patrols in regions. However, their actions are intensifying tensions and ignoring Beijing's right to defend the core interests and sovereignty.

Beijing's ambitions are allegedly at least 6 aircraft carrier combat groups with comprehensive combat capabilities by 2035. The launch of each new ship will improve the professional and technical level.

The aircraft carrier is a display of military power and determination, which can send political information to the outside world and play a deterrent role. The United States and allies through warship exercises (especially in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea are controversial waters), the flight and weapon deployment of reconnaissance aircraft to provoke Beijing, which will inevitably exacerbate regional tensions. China needs to realize the modernization of the army and improve national defense capabilities to protect sovereignty and interests.

The US "Foreign Policy" website on June 21, the original topic: China established the third aircraft carrier, aiming at the third Asian aircraft carrier in the United States, the water to highlight China's ambition to become a global and influential military power. China is preparing to compete with the United States in Washington's most powerful field for a long time. The US military dominant position (especially in Asia) is built on the power of maritime, and the power of maritime depends on the aircraft carrier fleet. Today, China is proposing a direct challenge: what you can do, we can do bigger and better.

But unlike all active American aircraft carriers, the "Fujian Ship" has no nuclear power, which will make it more dependent on auxiliary ships to achieve long -distance operations. In addition to the differences and capabilities of the fleet, we should not rashly regard the Chinese aircraft carrier fleet as a direct challenge to the United States. This may not be the key to the problem. The U.S. Navy is gradually reducing the range of carrier carrier -based aircraft, because if the aircraft carrier itself is closer to the enemy's coast, why will it work for a long distance? Because of this, China's new aircraft carriers may not be a direct challenge to the power of the US Navy. On the contrary, it shows that China is considering an era, that is, the credibility of the United States in Asia is further weakened, and China itself has more freedom to deal with small countries. In other words, China is creating a fleet of the American era. (Author Sam Rogen, translated by Chen Junan)

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