If the Chinese military declares openly interest in aircraft carrier, this is an old Oriental trick. All ways pay attention to what they don’t say versus what they do say. Pay attention to the Chinese submarine developments more than aircraft carriers. Today US surveillance can detect anything on the surface except when under jungle cover or underwater.
Submarines, DDGs, etc., aren’t necessarily excluded by the drive toward a carrier fleet.
Number 1 son say submalines be useful for locating sunken callier. That is why we must have one ship flom column A and 2 flom column B.
Much like the old Soviet Union, there is a surprising amount of open debate in military journals that are publicly avaliable.
The reality is the carrier thing is controversial within the PLAN and there are obviously arguing factions.
I'd saw refitting a Russki carrier and purchasing the carrier-capable version of the Sukhoi Su-30 Flanker calls for some attention.