Fujian leaves harbour for the first time on Wednesday May 1, 2024
Lewis Page – The Telegraph May 2, 2024
On Wednesday morning China’s third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, left the Jiangnan shipyard in Shanghai for her initial sea trials – and Beijing’s journey towards world dominance took another big step forward.
It won’t be all that long before the Fujian completes trials and gets her first aircraft. The learning curve for the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) will be steep: the new ship is China’s first catapult carrier, and a big step up from the PLAN’s previous ships, Liaoning and Shandong. But one of these fine days the Fujian will have a complement of tailhook J-15B fighters (late fourth generation, derived from the Russian ‘Flanker’) and – almost more importantly – KJ-600 radar planes. Not so very long after that she will start getting carrier-capable J-35 fifth-generation stealth fighters. China already has a profusion of powerful escort warships, supply vessels and submarines ready to form a strike group around the Fujian.
Once the PLAN has learned how to use her, the Fujian will be more than a match for a British carrier, or the single French one. She will only be a little less powerful than one of the US Navy’s mighty supercarriers.
The implications of this are huge. Seventy per cent of the world is salt water. Almost all of the human race lives within range of aircraft launched from a carrier in the nearest sea or ocean. The vast majority of world trade moves by ship, especially bulk commodities like iron ore.
At the moment, no matter where across the aqueous globe one may find oneself, the most significant naval force is nearly always the nearest US Navy carrier strike group. On its own, that US carrier group is capable of defeating most national navies and air forces. It dominates the sea and the sky, and can project hard power many hundreds of miles inland. It can remain present for months on end without any land-based support or consent from the local region, fighting hard or just poised for action. This is true blue-water naval capability. Despite many claims to the contrary, it has not been rendered obsolete by ballistic or even hypersonic missiles.
As a result, with certain exceptions, it’s an American world run by America’s rules. Americans being essentially rather decent, and most of us adequately happy with the situation, we call this “the rules-based international order”, but it is what it is – the Pax Americana.
There is, of course, an emerging axis of opposition to this. Russia, China and Iran make no secret of the fact that they don’t like the world the way it is. India appears to be slipping into this camp: certainly to the extent of snapping up cheap Russian oil, and thereby bankrolling Putin’s atrocities in Ukraine.
These malign actors extend their tentacles around the globe. Wagner Group operatives are active in Africa and other places. Iran, as is well known, has its proxies in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen. Chinese money, often lent under the Belt and Road Initiative, has extended its influence worldwide. Last month deals were signed for $15bn of finance, mostly Chinese, which is expected to finally get the giant Simandou iron ore project in Guinea moving. New and massive supplies of iron ore will apparently begin to ship from West Africa before the end of 2025.
China buys over 70 per cent of all seaborne iron ore, and at the moment it is heavily dependent on Australian supplies – supplies which would probably cease, in the event of China invading Taiwan. In just a few years, perhaps, this dependency will be lessened. The government of Guinea will probably not be overly concerned about Taiwan. One of the rules of the rules-based order is that nobody is allowed to interfere with freedom of navigation on the high seas, so China will probably be able to get its ore even having invaded Taiwan.
The ore will be turned into steel, and steel will be turned into ships. The next carrier to follow the Fujian is already building, and this one will probably be fully the equal of a US vessel. Beijing plans to have six carriers by 2035.
More and more in future, no matter where you may be in the world, the nearest carrier strike group may be Chinese, not American. At first this will influence thinking and military realities in places like the Gulf – China has already found itself in naval control there for a spell recently. Then, perhaps, the Torres Strait north of Australia. Soon enough there may be a Chinese carrier group nearby anywhere in the Pacific, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and from time to time the English Channel and the North Sea.
This is blue water carrier power. It can reach almost anywhere.
It’s going to be a very different world.
“…the aqueous globe…” Ha ha ha.
“Americans being essentially rather decent, …” Ha ha ha
I smell a jew in the text!
the chinese are upset over the USA alowing the mass murderes in palestine going on since 1948
its a shame the Uk is so corrupt and in israels pocket
Reading the Telegraph, I at first can’t remember who it is they are supposed to like or dislike in the chess-game, and have to make an effort to care. It casually tosses off a lie like the idea that our side follows a Rules-Based Order while Israel breaks every rule in the book. Rachel Corrie must wonder what “the rules” were. “Tanks are allowed to flatten you if Israel does not like you”?
Well why did Nixon and his buddies open up relations with China.Napoleon said it was better to allow it to sleep…..
It has been suggested that the sudden increase of refugees in China…Jewish refugees had a purpose (1930’s)….
NZ even contributed with the Jewish pedophile Rewi Alley.
At the moment, and I think it’s going stay this way, is that China wants to control its own back yard.
As a leading BRICS member, and now by far the world’s largest economy on many measures. China sees free non extortion trade as the next chapter of Earth.
While China has built artificial islands, or expanded others into stationary aircraft carriers, these new ships will complement China’s access to shipping routes.
With the Arctic sea lanes coming, and Belt & Road (Slik Road 2), China has other options to circumvent the US Nazi navy, which is now smaller than the Chinese navy. The US Navy is spread thinly around the world, and most of it is moored in harbour, because the US is so bankrupt, they can’t afford to operate it.
Take Nazi UKs new Challanger 3 tank. It’s not new, it’s a modified version of the C2 tank. This underlines just how bankrupt the UK really is. When they ordered the C2, it was just over 100 tanks, but nearly 75% were mothballed and used for parts, and the same will happen with the C3.
I am sure Chinese carriers with full escorts will make global passage, but only to impress other BRICS members. Their main purpose is to defend China from US based that circle China’s water front properties.
Me, if I were a Nazi, and I am not.. I’d be much more worried about Chinese submarines, because they will be prowling the world’s oceans.
And a closing point. If you think Chinese warships are substandard to Nazi builds, then you’re a fool. Chinese war ships are as good, if not better than Nazi ships, and they are much newer. The truth, China can build more, and at a fraction of Nazi costs. Not only is the Nazi West bankrupt, they can’t afford to even come close to matching the Chinese.
To be superior to what the West has got all this carrier needs is planes that take off when they need them to. I’m sure they have. Most navies have. Except ours.
bankrolling Putin’s atrocities in Ukraine. really?
All the DLJ traitors at the Talmudgraph endlessly pushing for a Goy war against Russia & China need to be marched to Traitor’s Gate & publicly burned at the stake
Beijings journey towards world dominance took another big step .. and now it’s going to be a very different world .. the Telegraph programming the public .. haha ..
Carriers are obsolete. Only good for police actions against third world nations. Would get sunk fast in a real war.
Your sovereignty as a nation is gone, already, no matter what anyone does at this point. You allowed it to happen by being meek sheep and actually believing that any of these filthy politicians really believed in you or America. They are bought and paid for by the highest bidder (the jew) and the deed was done the instant you bought into the pandemic lie. You fell for it hook, line and sinker. You needn’t worry about ever going back to anything you ever knew as normal again. Welcome to the new order. “We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”― Ayn Rand
I remember Bernard Manning from years ago saying “If the Chinks put something in the fried-rice on a Saturday night, they could take over country without a fight on Sunday!”…
only for some lager-lout to shout out “Don’t forget the Pakis putting something in the f’kin curry!”
Brought the hose down! 😂
This article is meant as a joke, right? China is a paper tiger. It cannot defeat the US in a military confrontation. That is why the Chinese are busy subverting and poisoning the US.. And be assured the US has weapons no one has seen yet.
Only two types of ships.
Submarines and targets.
Jews have to keep confirming their phony NATO vs. BRICS setup for the Putintards to believe in.
Nemesis nails it in his comment above…”Talmudgraph” hahaha As I was reading the piece, I was thinking, “Who is this bleating asshole?” But I had inadvertently skipped the source at the top. Nemesis set me straight and cleared up my confusion.
“These malign actors extend their tentacles around the globe. Wagner Group operatives are active in Africa and other places. Iran, as is well known, has its proxies in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen….” …Oh, Russia, China, and Iran are the “malign actors”, are they? The Jewnited States are the good guys, huh, the noble guardians of the “rules-based international order”? Not a peep about Jewry or Israhell as a “malign actor”? Fuuuuuuuck Yoooooouuuuuu, Jack. Or Shlomo, or Hymie, or whatever your name is. Oh wait, it’s “Lewis”…but he clearly misspelled Jewis.
Malign actors….as if the chaos, degradation, and destruction sown by, and in, the Jewnited States, Jew-K, and a couple cuntires of Jewrope hasn’t been a criminallu insane satanic orgy of mass murder and mayhem, all directed by their Jew overlords because Shlomo has video of the puppets raping kids and our ancestors were suicidally stupid enough to give control of credit and currency to THE most evil pieces of shit to ever get squeezed out of Satan’s poop-chute. And the “malign actors” seem to be more actors in the giant shit-show, otherwise Israhell would have been bombed into oblivion decades ago and Jews would have been rounded up everywhere and launched into the sun.
This aircraft carrier actually works, unlike those Brit pieces of junk that keep breaking down. China also has drone subs that carry a nuke & tail our carrier groups at around 2,000 feet, meaning they can’t be detected, until the flag goes up, they float up & detonate.
Bye Bye US carriers.
patrick
quote your jew
This article is a classic example of how infantile MSM supposed journos are. The more this crap goes on the younger they sound.
Grow the f up