China’s “Peaceful” New Aircraft Carrier

Name; In good tradition of naming carriers after former country leader --- Launch Zemin

Agreed it is an older obsolete design,; however, it does give the Chinese valuable ship building experience. This carrier will really only replace the already aging Laoning. The second generation of Chinese carriers will be a copy of US designs with catapult capability. They will have some difficulties, but will iron them out or steal the relative technology anyway. The real threat is in 20 or so years when they will be ale to lay down numerous "modern" carriers.

The new PRC aircraft carrier is currently an obsolete hole in the water, and still under construction, due to be in sea trials and commissioned in 2020. It is an "independently designed in China" knockoff that can't even launch turboprop aircraft for resupply or long range surveillance. So it ought be named 西的宝贝步骤 (Xī de Bǎobèi Bùzhòu).