The Pearl in the Great China Fleet
... up its lofty territorial claims and confirm its status as a means of projecting the country’s power to the world, the PLA Navy has initiated a large-scale programme to build an aircraft carrier fleet. All That Money Can Buy In developing its navy, China of course takes its cue from the global trendsetter and main potential enemy, namely the United States. However, it ... ... unsuccessful attempts to build “Stalin’s Big Fleet,” as it was called [1] , which was supposed to include aircraft carriers (the first such proposals were heard when the Russian Empire was still in existence ), the Soviet Navy was ...