국제문제/중국

(중국) 중국 자체제작 최초 항공모함 진수식

밝은하늘孤舟獨釣 2017. 4. 26. 21:17

출처: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39715228


밝은 하늘: 

   중국에는 우크라이나에서 사와 리모델링해 사용하고 있는 첫번째 항공모함 리아오닝호가 있고, 그리고 자체 기술로 제작한 두번째 항공모함, 이렇게 두 대가 있다. 아직 미국에 비하면 항공모함의 능력이 많이 부족하지만, 시사하는 바는 엄청나다고 할 수 있다. 

   중국의 항공모함 건조는 자국의 이익을 위해서이다. 한국의 사드 배치는 누구를 위한 것인가? 진정으로 한반도를 위한 것인가? 아니면 실제로는 미국을 위한 것인가? 국가통수권자의 재가도 없이 그리고 국민에 대한 설득도 없이, 비밀리에, 급하게, 일방적으로, 배치하는 쪽으로 처리한 것으로 보아, 의구심을 떨칠 수 없으며, 참으로 안타까울 따름이다.


China launches aircraft carrier, boosting military presence

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Media captionChinese state media released a picture of the launch showing the carrier bedecked in giant colourful streamers

China has launched a new aircraft carrier in the latest sign of its growing military strength.

It is the country's second aircraft carrier, after the Liaoning, and the first to be made domestically.

The as-yet unnamed ship was transferred into the water in the north-eastern port of Dalian, state media said. It will reportedly be operational by 2020.

It comes amid heated rhetoric between the US and North Korea and ongoing tensions in the South China Sea.

Aircraft carrier sets sail in DalianImage copyrightREUTERS
Image captionThe new aircraft carrier is China's second, and the first to be domestically-built

China has had only one operational aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, which it bought from Ukraine and refitted.

The US has deployed warships and a submarine to the Korean peninsula, prompting an angry reaction from North Korea. China has urged calm.

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A big step for Beijing, by the BBC's China Correspondent Stephen McDonell

The sight of a bottle of champagne hitting the bow of a new Chinese-built aircraft carrier will worry many.

Western military intelligence will be poring over the television footage. For them it's not emotional: cold calculations are being made.

They see a not quite finished vessel, a few years from full service, partly based on Soviet-era design.

It's technologically inferior to the ten aircraft carriers being used by the United States Navy - but there's no doubt that it's a big step for China.

China's aircraft carrier programme is a state secret, but it's hard to imagine this country being satisfied with two of them.

The US says all options are on the table to remove North Korea's nuclear weapons - and it is using the USS Carl Vinson battle group to press the point.

That's the kind of power that China wants - and that's why we haven't seen the last Chinese aircraft carrier rolling off the production line in the Dalian shipyard.

The new carrier is touted as a significant upgrade from the Liaoning, which was built more than 25 years ago and is a refurbished ship from the days of the Soviet Union.

It has been seen by some analysts as a kind of training vessel in preparation for the new carrier, our correspondent says.

This photo taken on 24 December 2016 shows the Liaoning, China's only aircraft carrier, sailing during military drills in the Pacific.Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES
Image captionChina's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, is a refurbished Soviet ship

But China has been modernising its armed forces recently as its economy expands.

In March, it announced it would increase its military budget by about 7% this year - the second year in a row that increases have been less than 10%, after nearly 20 years of larger increases.

China's defence budget remains smaller than that of the US, however.

While China's military spending will be about 1.3% of the country's projected GDP in 2017, the US spends roughly 3% of its economic output on the military - and the US economy is larger, so the dollar value difference is enormous.

US President Donald Trump has also proposed a 10% increase in the military budget.

Chinese state news agency Xinhua said work had started on China's latest aircraft carrier in 2013.

The launch was attended by the vice-president of China's central military commission, Fan Changlong.

Officials smashed a bottle of champagne on the ship's hull as "magnificent patriotic songs" played on loudspeakers and nearby ships sounded their horns in celebration, reported Xinhua.

The defence ministry said previously that it would carry China's J-15 aircraft along with other planes, and that it would use conventional rather than nuclear propulsion.

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