It would seem like an easy question to answer, right? Hiding an aircraft carrier isn’t like slipping a knife into your pocket. But China watchers aren’t sure what’s going on in Beijing. In January 2006, Taiwan claimed to have evidence that mainland China was planning to build an entire carrier group, a charge Beijing immediately derided. The Chinese explained that they were merely converting a retired Ukrainian carrier, the Varyag, into a floating museum. But new questions are coming out. Joseph E. Lin writes in the Jamestown Foundation’s most recent China Brief:
by Foreign Policy Magazine
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