INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Almost a decade has passed since the People’s Liberation Army pulled the trigger on President Xi Jinping’s plans for a massive overhaul
of the world’s biggest military
In the latest of a series on Chinese weapon systems, Seong Hyeon Choi looks at what China’s second aircraft carrier tells us about the PLA
Navy’s blue water ambitions.
The Shandong – which arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday for its inaugural five-day port call to the city –
is the PLA Navy’s second aircraft carrier and its first to...
