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Monday, March 18, 2013

China's nuclear powered aircraft carrier programme rings alarm bells in India


China's plans of building a nuclear powered aircraft carrier using reactors of existing submarines has led to alarm bells ringing as the warships could be used to patrol the Indian Ocean, which is 2,500 km from its coast.

So is China flexing its muscles in India's strategic space and what should India's response be?

A clumsily worded sentence on the website of China's Shipbuilding Industry Corporation sparked off a firestorm on the internet that the Chinese military's biggest shipyard was going to build a nuclear powered aircraft carrier with reactors probably based on its existing submarine reactors.

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