DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: China Reveals Aircraft Carrier Plans....NSI News Source Info # 1352

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: China Reveals Aircraft Carrier Plans....NSI News Source Info # 1352

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 18, 2010: China has confirmed for the first time that it is preparing to build an aircraft carrier, a move set to heighten international concerns over the rapid expansion of its naval power.

Beijing announced its step quietly with one sentence buried at the end of a lengthy government publication.

“In 2009, China put forward a plan and a programme for building an aircraft carrier,” says China’s Ocean Development Report (2010), a book published in May by the State Oceanic Administration, a body under the Ministry of Land and Resources.

“This shows that China has started entering a new historic era of comprehensively building itself into a great naval power. [This] is China’s historic task for the entire 21st century,” the report said.

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