[DarkWaters]

The Chinese did get one aircraft carrier from the Russians. One that hadn't been completely finished in the Soviet day's, and a Chinese firm with heavy ties to the PLA said they would convert it into a 'floating hotel', yea right. I would imagine the Chinese will use the plans for this carrier to build their own style of carriers that suite them. Russia may have agreements with Beijing, but they will only go so far so as not to jeopardize their own future.

[Polybius]

The Chinese did get one aircraft carrier from the Russians. One that hadn't been completely finished in the Soviet day's, and a Chinese firm with heavy ties to the PLA said they would convert it into a 'floating hotel', yea right. I would imagine the Chinese will use the plans for this carrier to build their own style of carriers that suite them.

The carrier in question, the Varyag, is a ski-jump type carrier such as the Brits had in the Falklands where they could not maintain adequate fleet air defense even against antiquated Argentinian 1960's era Skyhawks.

In any encounter with the U.S. Navy, such a carrier would have an extremely short and violent battle history.