China flexing muscle more after launching 1st aircraft

Since commissioning its first aircraft carrier, China's navy has conducted more exercises farther away from its shores and flexing its muscle by closely patrolling areas in disputed waters where Chinese companies are drilling for oil, a top US Air Force commander has said.

Air Force General Herbert "Hawk" Carlisle, the head of US Pacific Air Forces, said China's naval and air forces in particular are "very much continuing to push" and becoming more active in international waters and airspace in Asia.

"They still talk about the century of humiliation in the last century. They still talk about this as the rise of China," Carlisle was quoted as saying by the Washington Post.

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