China's New Carrier Is Just "One Big Fat Target"

The Shi Lang

China’s Carrier: ‘A Highly Vulnerable Extravagance’ -- DoD Buzz

Defense analyst Daniel Goure doesn’t buy the storyline that China’s aircraft carrier, said to be getting ready to sail for sea trials, spells doom and irrelevance for American power in the Pacific. Instead, he writes, it’s a huge vanity project, a kind of national sports car of questionable practicality and potentially high vulnerability . There’s a precedent for this, Goure argues — the Soviet Navy, of which China’s carrier Shi Lang was originally supposed to be a part:

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My Comment: I agree with Drake1 in the Dod Buzz comments tread for this story .....

1. We have 14 trillion debt.
2. The Chinese do not.
Who's Navy is going to shrink and who's is going to grow?
Economic power = military might.

Indeed.

Update: The Danger Room's analysis of China's first carrier is even more brutal.