Sustaining The Chinese Navy’s Operations At Sea: Bigger Fists, Growing Legs – Analysis

By Felix K. Chang*

(FPRI) — In April 2023, a Chinese aircraft carrier battle group, led by the Shandong (China’s second aircraft carrier and the first that it built from the keel up), sailed through the Bashi Channel to an area about 400 kilometers east of Taiwan. There, it conducted some eighty J-15 fighter...