China's aircraft carrier Liaoning takes part in a military drill of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy in the western Pacific Ocean, April 18, 2018.
VOA: Beijing Readies 2 New Aircraft Carriers
TAIPEI — The deployment this year of a second aircraft carrier and construction of a third will allow China to position one of the carriers in the contested South China Sea, maritime policy experts believe.
A carrier known only as Type 001 has been tested in China for formal use by September. Another is being built for a launch in 2022, the China Power Project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a May 7 research note.
China is likely to base one carrier in the South China Sea, position one in the East China Sea, and let the third travel the world, said Oh Ei Sun, senior fellow with the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.
“I don’t think that they will actually go attack people, but of course just the show of force is quite impressive,” he said.
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WNU Editor: The Chinese strategy and policy on what will be the mission for its aircraft carriers is very straight forward. To deploy one in the South China Sea, one in the East China Sea, one to travel around the world, and another (which will probably be announced in the next year or two), to serve as a back-up.
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