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Yeah like I said, it's going to be a long way off before the PLA can put together a proper blue-water Naval Force, as it's not just a matter of building the carrier (and building just one would be rather stupid) its fielding their Air wings (and right now the PLA has no carrier planes) training pilots and crews, and of course assembling the huge support systems needed to maintain, operate and protect a carrier (And protecting it from the US Military would be no easy task). Right now the Chinese would have to basically do it from scratch, and given their less than illustrious record of developing their own Military technology and tactics, I'd pretty much write off the PLA-N as an Air-Sea Navy for a long, long time.
By the way, how are their Naval Air Defences coming along? Last I knew, they weren't too good.
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