See my post 38 and visit the links there.
The Chinese put these pictures out to offset and pre-empt the exercises that were performed starting January 5th by the Indian Navy with their two carriers, including their new one, the INS Vikramaditya.
American’s wonder why the price of scrap metal has been so high these past years? Where do they think this scrap metal has been and continues to go?
You’re looking at it in these photos.
Thanks for the response. As I suspected, there's less than meets the eye. It's pretty amusing that they used land-based aircraft for the pics rather than simply acknowledge that they did not have an operational carrier squadron.