China’s first aircraft carrier forms ‘evolving pattern’ of voyages in disputed Asian seas
The 14-year-old carrier is being used to train China’s newer flat-tops and signal naval reach, experts said.
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China Flexes Its Naval Muscles Near Japan With Ukraine-Built Aircraft Carrier
China has deployed its first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, originally built at a shipyard in Ukraine, to waters near Japan as part of a major naval training operation in the Western Pacific, prompting Japanese fighter jets to scramble in response to Chinese carrier-based aviation activity.
Liaoning carrier: the steady pattern of China’s first aircraft carrier in the Pacific, as logged by Japan
For the second time in 2026 the Liaoning operated in the Pacific, this time passing between Okinawa and Miyako. Japanese records from May and October, side by side, show a repeated, organised training programme far from Chinese shores.
The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning adds a new distant deployment and operates within Japan’s EEZ as Taipei monitors large-scale maneuvers. Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning’s entry chains six distant deployments and tightens the China Sea aparece primero en Moncloa.
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