Well, they can build all the carriers they want, but without any longstanding tradition of carrier/battlegroup operations, my guess is that their new CV(s) will be eventually become coral fodder.
That's the sort of complacency that leads to military disasters. History books are full of such lessons.
One shouldn't assume that the PRC will deploy it's carriers the way the USN does.Well nobody can do that.
My first thought was that it will make a great artificial reef about an hour after hostilities break out.
Wow! 2010 with their first carrier only 90 years behind the rest of the military powers. At this rate should we expect unmanned drones within say 50 years?
China has a massive and impressive naval tradition. Don't underrate their capability to return to that tradition.