According to Xinhua News Agency, on the 7th, November 5 marked a historic moment for the Chinese Navy — the first domestically designed and built aircraft carrier with electromagnetic catapult system, Fujian, was officially commissioned in a military port in Sanya, Hainan, with the hull number "18".

From its launching on June 17, 2022, to successfully taking off three types of carrier-based aircraft, and now the official delivery of the Fujian to the People's Liberation Army, every step of the Fujian has embodied the dedication and wisdom of countless Chinese military engineers. Its commissioning not only marks that the Chinese Navy has officially entered the era of three aircraft carriers, but also casts a shocking "deep water bomb" into the global naval landscape, drawing high attention from American media.

On the 7th, Fujian officially joined the fleet

At the time of the official commissioning of the Fujian, the American military media outlet Stars and Stripes published an article for the first time in a rare manner to reduce the "China threat theory", stating that "the dazzling aircraft carrier of China will not pose a threat to the national security of the United States".

But it is interesting that this time, American media did not pick at technical aspects to deliberately belittle the achievements of our aircraft carrier construction, but instead acknowledged the application of electromagnetic catapult technology by China, as well as the progress of the Fujian carrier successfully catapulting the Airborne Early Warning-600 and J-35, which "has already caught up or even surpassed the US Navy".

The article stated that before the Chinese Navy released the video of the Airborne Early Warning-600 taking off from the Fujian carrier, only the US Navy's aircraft carriers had the capability to catapult such heavy aircraft, "which gave the US aircraft carriers a huge advantage in intelligence and operational management. Now this advantage no longer exists".

So why does the American media still think that the Fujian carrier does not pose a threat to the United States?

This is what the American media said

The logic of the article is as follows: The Stars and Stripes believes that due to geographical advantages and military modernization, the PLA now has the ability to gain air and sea superiority over the Taiwan Strait without relying on aircraft carriers. The real mission of the Fujian, Shandong, and Liaoning carrier groups is to prevent US military intervention around the island of Taiwan.

Therefore, the actual intention of the American media is that as long as Washington realizes that the Taiwan issue is "not crucial" to the United States and "not worth starting a war between major powers," under the current realistic conditions of the lack of overseas bases supporting aircraft carrier operations, although China has already possessed three aircraft carriers, it currently does not have the intention of projecting power at a distance, and therefore will not pose a threat to the national security of the United States.

This should be another public call from American media or think tanks for Washington to carefully consider the Taiwan issue.

Fujian still needs time to develop combat capability

It must be admitted that the change in the American public opinion from previously exaggerated "China threat theory" to now being "calm" about the official commissioning of the Fujian carrier makes one think of the saying: When the US says you have weapons of mass destruction, you had better really have them — the recent narrative changes of the US media around the delivery of the Fujian carrier are a vivid reflection of this saying in the era of aircraft carriers.

Aircraft carriers, especially modern carriers like the Fujian with straight decks, advanced electromagnetic catapult systems, and the ability to take off stealth carrier-based aircraft and fixed-wing airborne early warning aircraft, are strategic assets equivalent to "weapons of mass destruction" in great power games. They represent a systematic long-range combat capability and a determination to project power.

J-35, J-15T, and Airborne Early Warning-600 have already appeared on the Fujian's deck

In the past, when China's aircraft carrier program was just beginning, Western media was full of mockery and contempt, calling the Liaoning and Shandong carriers "a clumsy copy of Russian aircraft carriers." However, when we truly had carriers that could rival the US Navy, and even some technologies had already surpassed those of the US, Western public opinion changed immediately.

The reduction of the "China threat theory" by the Stars and Stripes exactly indicates that we are on the right path: Only when the US says your "threat" is no longer there, actually proves that your deterrence is indeed effective.

The Fujian is not only a milestone in the development of the Chinese Navy, but also a new starting point. The road ahead is still long. In terms of the number of aircraft carriers, nuclear power technology, and long-range combat experience, we still have certain gaps compared to the strongest. In the future, China will continue to build a world-leading navy according to its own pace and needs.



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