The Liaoning Aircraft Carrier Strike Group conducts transregional training in June 2017. China's aircraft carrier and its rapidly modernizing navy, puts Beijing in an elite club with the greatest naval powers in the world. This development has raised eyebrows in the Pacific and globally, as China ignores international law, builds and militarizes artificial islands in the South China Sea, and threatens its neighbors.
Liaoning (16; Chinese: 辽宁舰; pinyin: Liáoníng Jiàn), a Type 001 aircraft carrier, is the first aircraft carrier commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force. It is classified as a training ship, intended to allow the Navy to experiment and gain familiarity with aircraft carrier operations.
Originally laid down in 1985 for the Soviet Navy as the Kuznetsov-class aircraft cruiser Riga, she was launched on 4 December 1988 and renamed Varyag in 1990. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, construction was halted and the ship was put up for sale by Ukraine. The stripped hulk was purchased in 1998 and towed to the Dalian naval shipyard in northeast China.
The ship was rebuilt and commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) as Liaoning on 25 September 2012. Its Chinese ship class designation is Type 001. In November 2016, the political commissar of Liaoning, Senior Captain Li Dongyou, stated that Liaoning was combat ready.
China's Liaoning stacks up to other carriers worldwide, almost two decades after buying the hull from Ukraine in 1998, China has finally declared its sole aircraft carrier ready for combat.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_aircraft_carrier_Liaoning
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-liaoning-aircraft-carrier-vs-nimitz-kuznetsov-2016-11/#this-is-chinas-only-aircraft-carrier-the-liaoning-like-much-of-chinas-military-hardware-the-liaoning-is-a-reworking-of-an-older-russian-made-model-1
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