China has launched its first domestically designed and built aircraft carrier and has called for the US to cease military exercises with South Korea as Trump's USS Vinson continues to steam towards the Korean Peninsula.

The 50,000-ton carrier, based on the Soviet Kuznetsov class design, was towed from its dockyard just after 9am following a ceremony in the northern port city of Dalian.

It comes as the US aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson makes its way to the troubled Korean Peninsula amid fearsKim Jong-unis plotting to carry outNorth Korea's sixth nuclear test.

But China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday urged an end to US-South Korean military manoeuvres as well as a stop to North Korea's nuclear programme to calm tensions on the peninsula.

Talking in Berlin, he said: 'We have to, on the one hand, stop the nuclear activities of North Korea and, on the other hand, the large-scale manoeuvres in Korean waters should cease.'





https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/26/china-launches-second-aircraft-carrier-that-is-first-built-at-home?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C4732292480

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39715228

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4446206/China-launches-domestically-built-aircraft-carrier-media.html

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Beijing's first domestically designed and built carrier will hold 24 Shenyang J-15 fighter jets and 12 helicopters.


The newly-built aircraft carrier is transferred from dry dock into the water at a launch ceremony at a shipyard in Dalian in northeastern China's Liaoning Province this morning.


Development of the new carrier began in 2013 and construction in late 2015.


The new carrier is part of an ambitious expansion of
Chinese navy, which is projected to have a total of 265-273 warships, submarines and logistics vessels by 2020.

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Brilliant

Good development for China. Nigeria will someday get it right. I believe that.

I hope it will last long.
Made in China.

Anyway, still better than my country

Cool Stuff

Wonderful

The world is watching...

seunlayi:
Hope someone in abj can show this to our leaders. Nigeria needs to wake up

You mean that WordPress blogger that's managing our economy on fiverr?

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MrBONE2:
Spread Antelope Skin on ground

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Make I join you Abeg

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If only we can take cue from china, we will be a greater nation.

viva china

Splendid

Congratulations China. Few people realise that USA was so worried about China buying the Varyang from Ukraine thay they try to outbid Xu Zengping for the old hulk. The clock is ticking down on the neocon empire

I was about posting this but you beat me to it bro!

Seems they copied the previous design of the Russian built aircraft carrier after it was sold to them by the Russians.

India, now, China has theirs. We suppose get to police Africa water abi how una reason am?

Once wrote that of India here: https://www.nairaland.com/2372429/india-test-first-homegrown-aircraft

well done!

well done China

Good for them

In Nigeria, na only new methods of stealing our politicians sabi. Even the witches and wizards no sabi use their juju for better thing.

Kondomatic:
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Great and amazing feat for China....


My country Nigeria which way na...

The aircraft carrier represents the result of visionary and goal-oriented leadership. The Chinese have this-we don't(since 1960). They have been working towards this for some time now while we have been busy acquiring ships abandoned by the US Coast Guard e.g.our flagship NNS Thunder.

mansakhalifa:
The aircraft carrier represents the result of visionary and goal-oriented leadership. The Chinese have this-we don't(since 1960). They have been working towards this for some time now while we have been busy acquiring ships abandoned by the US Coast Guard e.g.our flagship NNS Thunder.

FOR GOODNESS SAKES, YOU GUYS.

You actually expect Nigeria to be a builder of AIRCRAFT CARRIERS today?

Barely 50 years after independence? When such independence meant virtually bullding up the nation from scratch? (Since the British did virtually nothing in their 60 years in charge). In 1960 we had not one university in the country!!!

An artificial conglomeration of disparate nationalities and 250 different languages.

This is the country you expect to be manufacturing AIRCRAFT CARRIERS by 2017?


Honestly, some of you just need to......chill.

Meanwhile, the new carrier being built by the US costs over $12 BILLION.

You suggesting Nigeria use half of its annual budget to build AIRCRAFT CARRIER??

Please, are you people mad?