The British are going to build two large deck carriers to replace their VTOL carriers in the 20-teens.
Right, but anyway, I find thinking about it fascinating. Take Brazil, for example. (Or Spain or Italy really). You only have one carrier. If you base your naval objectives around it, you better be dammned sure it is protected. You buy all that protection, and still, you are scared to employ the carrier anywhere that it might face danger. When all is said and done, maybe you would have been better with a couple of Ticonderoga cruisers.
Anyway, the Thai carrier makes a lot of sense given the intense need to be able to patrol their waters to protect merchant shipping from Pirates.
Nuclear powered, supported by other craft, and a military strategy to support a carrier has to be considered.
The US is superior in this aspect and just showing a fleet of carriers by numbers is vague and could give the impression that we have something to fear by it.