China should and also have the capability of building its own aircraft carrier, said a veteran military delegate to the Chinese legislature here on Thursday.
The realistic and potential demand for security requires China to have its own aircraft carrier, as any country has the right to make the decision, said Admiral Hu Yanlin, former political commissar of Navy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, who is attending the ongoing Second Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC), or China's parliament.
China is capable of building aircraft carriers thanks to the reform and opening up policy that has stimulated great development of the country over the past three decades, he said.
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The debate all strikes me as bit accademic; Russia went through a similar one and ended up building carriers; and we all know china has been building up to them for a while - so why all the gamemanship?
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