First Chinese Aircraft Carrier Revealed

A top Chinese official for the first time revealed that the growing Chinese military will soon launch its first aircraft carrier. "An aircraft carrier has been under construction, but has not been completed," China's Defense Minister Chen Bingde told a Hong Kong newspaper Tuesday in a rare admission for the secretive Chinese government. The Pentagon has been long aware of Chinese ambitions to build not just one, but multiple aircraft carriers as part of an effort to modernize its military...Full Story