It’s Murphy’s law of military actions: if they are in range, then so are you.
For a carrier group to accomplish anything useful, they need to get their planes within their combat radius to the objective, and hope that range is greater than that of the enemy’s missiles.
“For a carrier group to accomplish anything useful, they need to get their planes within their combat radius to the objective, and hope that range is greater than that of the enemy’s missiles.”
And regarding China, they ain’t by a LONG shot.