[Virginia Ridgerunner]

It won’t happen. This is the same means that the ChiComs used when they acquired the Soviet Varyag, which they said would be turned into a casino.

Set up a front to buy the hulk for some seemingly inocuous purpose, haul it to the Dalian shipyards, and then turn it back into an operational carrier. That’s what they are up to.

The Brits are fools if they fall for this.

[Winniesboy]

Set up a front to buy the hulk for some seemingly inocuous purpose, haul it to the Dalian shipyards, and then turn it back into an operational carrier

To do that they'd also have to build a VTOL aircraft which (in the form of the Harier) was the only plane capable of operating from an Invincible-class carrier (no catapults!)

[Colorado Doug]

You are exactly right. They have about as much intention of making this a disco as they had to make the Varyag a casino. It will be refitted as a military ship of some sort or another.