It completed a month-long voyage that included transits around Taiwan and the Western Pacific. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIJING - China’s military said on Wednesday the aircraft carrier Shandong had returned to its home port in Hainan “in recent days”, after a month-long voyage that included transits around Taiwan for drills and a flex of muscles as far out as the Western Pacific.
The show of force came after Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen met United States House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy, angering Beijing, which viewed the meeting as interference in China’s internal affairs and US support for Taiwan’s separate identity from China. “The Shandong carrier group, for the first time, in a formation and of scale, went to the waters of the Western Pacific,” it added.During the April drills, China showed extensive images of the Shandong and its fighter jets being launched from the carrier.
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