The Chinese Carrier

  This has got to be the biggest waste of time in all of Chinese military history. The ship began construction by the Soviet Union in 1985. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the incomplete ship came under Ukrainian possession as Ukraine seceded from the Soviet Union. Not knowing what to do with it, the ship was sold to China in 1998. The ship is over 25 yrs old and it is still not completed. This has got to be the biggest waste of time in all of China's navy. The ship depreciates faster than China can complete it. And it makes no sense why the Chinese refuse to simply launch it.

  If I was forced to rationalize why this ship was never put into the fleet it is because China fears that launching such a ship would encourage Japan and South Korea to try to launch their own carriers. But what does it matter. Both Japan, South Korea and the rest of the world falls under China's nuclear terror. So what does it matter if they launched a carrier or not.

 The ship is using 25 yr old technology. By the time the ship is complete, it is already outdated. It must be remembered, that if it takes 25 yrs to solve a math problem, then do not bother trying to solve it at all. If the Chinese intend to launch this ship, then they better launch it soon before it gets eaten up by its own rust.

 Fortunately, who ever runs China's SSBN department is not the type to take his american time.