IF there is a military conflict between us and the Chinese someday, that carrier will be a prime target of course, and if I was the military leader in that theater, I would send the Seawolf, Connecticut and Carter out with orders to seek and destroy all Chinese carriers. They're so quite the Chinese have no sonar that could detect them, and frankly, we could sink them before a war, and in deep water, the Chinese could never prove it was us that did it, because there would be no evidence, especailly if it was done in deep enough water. Just a thought.
I believe the same will occur with air assets...hoping to draw our strike packages in after the carrier where they can use their new area air defense ddg's and huge numbers of land based aircraft to try and waylay our own aircraft.
Either way...having a rich target like that to go in after in any conflict over Taiwan will complicate things and make them mopre dangerous. We are more than up to it...it will just increase the cost of our total victory. The PRC is, of course, hoping that a new administration will weigh that cost and choose not to intervene and thereby achieve a political victory where they could not achieve a military one.