TAIPEI--Taiwan defense ministry said on Thursday it was closely watching Chinese military movements after a surge in warplanes joined drills with China’s Shandong aircraft carrier in the Pacific.
The meta-problem with the aircraft carrier is straightforward enough. Every new development in missile technology makes it harder and harder to claim that aircraft carriers are worth the ticket price.
A United States nuclear-powered aircraft carrier continued to patrol the South China Sea this week, following a bilateral naval exercise with Washington's ally the Philippines. USS Carl Vinson ...
Commissioned in December 2019, Shandong is China’s first domestically-built aircraft carrier ... the Shandong carrier strike group, stationed east of Taiwan, coordinated with forward-deployed ...