This is the first time the carrier has conducted a cross-sea training voyage. According to the navy, the scheduled training session is aimed at testing the carrier’s equipment.
The aircraft carrier was escorted by two missile destroyers, the Shenyang and Shijiazhuang, and two missile frigates, the Yantai and Weifang. The Liaoning was commissioned into the Navy last year.
Previous training missions have included landing and take-off drills by J-15 carrier-borne fighter jets.
http://english.cntv.cn/program/newsupdate/20131126/104200.shtml
26/11/13
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China aircraft carrier in disputed waters will raise tension, Philippines say...
ReplyDeleteMANILA — The Philippines said today (Nov 27) the imminent arrival of China’s sole aircraft carrier in the disputed South China Sea for the first time for a training mission would raise tension.
The carrier Liaoning left port from the northern city of Qingdao accompanied by two destroyers and two frigates yesterday. While in the South China Sea, it will carry out tests and drills, according to China’s military.
China says the mission is routine.
China claims almost the entire oil- and gas-rich South China Sea, rejecting the rival claims to parts of it from Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Vietnam.
Philippine Foreign Affairs Department spokesman Raul Hernandez said the carrier’s arrival was a worrying development that contravened agreements with China on managing tension in the South China Sea.
“Its deployment raises tension and violates the Declaration of the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea,” he said.
“Its deployment must not be violative of international law, including the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea,” Mr Hernandez added.
China and the Philippines have accused each other of violating the code of conduct, a non-binding confidence-building agreement on maritime conduct signed by China and ASEAN in 2002.
The dispute over the sea is one of the region’s biggest flashpoints and underlines the significance of China’s military build-up and the United States strategic “pivot” back to Asia.
The Philippines, a US ally, has angered China by launching an arbitration case with the United Nations to challenge the legal validity of China’s claim.
Though considered decades behind US technology, the Liaoning represents the Chinese navy’s blue-water ambitions and has been the focus of a campaign to stir patriotism.
China has separate disputes with Japan and South Korea over different sets of small islands. AP
http://www.todayonline.com/world/asia/china-aircraft-carrier-disputed-waters-will-raise-tension-philippines-say
27/11/13
China schickt seinen Flugzeugträger.....
ReplyDelete28.11.2013 · Der Streit um die Senkaku-Inseln spitzt sich zu. Peking antwortet auf die Verletzung seiner Luftraumverteidigungszone durch amerikanische B-52-Bomber - und schickt seinen Flugzeugträger in das Gebiet.
Chinas neue Zone zur Luftraumüberwachung im Ostchinesischen Meer heizt die Inselstreitigkeiten in der Region an. Nach dem Eindringen zweier amerikanischer B-52-Bomber in die von China am Dienstag ausgerufene Luftverteidigungszone hat nun Peking seinen Flugzeugträger auf das südchinesische Meer Kurs nehmen lassen. Die laut offiziellen Angaben als Übungsfahrt titulierte Reise fällt zusammen mit der Reise des amerikanischen Vizepräsidenten Joe Biden nächste Woche nach Japan, China und Südkorea. Er will in Peking die Besorgnisse der Vereinigten Staaten über die Militärzone vorbringen, die Washington wie Seoul und Tokio scharf kritisiert hatte. Amerika will wissen, ob die neuen Regeln auch für kommerzielle Flugzeuge gelten. „In der Zwischenzeit raten wir amerikanischen Fluggesellschaften, alle Schritte zu ergreifen, die sie als notwendig erachten, um in der Region des Ostchinesischen Meeres sicher zu fliegen“, sagte eine Außenamtssprecherin in Washington.
In der neuen Zone verlangt China seit Samstag von ausländischen Flugzeugen, dass sie sich identifizieren und den Anweisungen seiner Luftwaffe folgen. Sonst drohen ihnen militärische Gegenmaßnahmen. Amerika hatte mit dem Überflug der B-52-Bomber in dem Seegebiet die Regeln demonstrativ missachtet, ohne dass es zu einem Zwischenfall gekommen war. China hatte zunächst zurückhaltend darauf reagiert. Das Vorgehen gegenüber ausländischen Flugzeugen hänge von der Situation und der Art der Bedrohung ab, hatte das Außenministerium in Peking mitgeteilt.
Die amerikanische Regierung rief derweil amerikanische Fluggesellschaften auf, vorerst alle notwendigen Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu ergreifen, bis die Regeln für kommerzielle Flugzeuge geklärt seien. Japanische Airlines hingegen wollen - wie die Regierung in Tokio - die neue Zone im Ostchinesischen Meer nicht respektieren................http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/asien/inselstreit-china-schickt-seinen-flugzeugtraeger-12684746.html
28/11/13
China building second aircraft carrier: Report....
ReplyDeleteBEIJING: China has started constructing the second of four planned aircraft carriers, a top government official said according to media reports on Saturday.
The ship is under construction in the northeastern port of Dalian and will take six years to build, the reports said quoting Wang Min, Communist Party chief for Dalian's Liaoning province.
The country's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, was completed in September 2012 in a symbolic milestone for the country's increasingly muscular military.
Another two are in the pipeline, according to Wang, in a projection of power that could be seen as contradicting Beijing's long-stated policy of arming itself strictly for self-defence.
When the Liaoning went into service, Beijing and Tokyo were locked in a territorial row over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea which China also claims and calls the Diaoyus.
The row continues to simmer, along with other sovereignty disputes with the Philippines and Vietnam.
Early this month a Japanese newspaper said China was overhauling its military structure in order to strengthen its attack capability and secure air and naval superiority in the South China and East China seas.
The Liaoning carrier conducted its maiden mission in the South China Sea in January.
It followed an incident in December in which a US warship was forced to avoid a collision with a Chinese naval vessel, prompting Washington to accuse China of being the aggressor.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/China-building-second-aircraft-carrier-Report/articleshow/29011024.cms
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