Chinese daily lauds India's indigenous aircraft carrier

The launch of India's indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant has demonstrated the country's success in building large ships, a leading Chinese daily said on Wednesday.

“The launch of India's home-built aircraft carrier is indeed worth celebrating, because it marks a firm stride toward the indigenisation of arms,” Liu Zongyi, assistant research fellow at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies, Shanghai Institute for International Studies, wrote in an article in the Global Times on Wednesday.

“The triumphant launch of the hull demonstrated India's progress in building giant surface carriers.”

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