China Aircraft Carrier Trains in South China Sea: Global Times
The Shandong aircraft carrier in 2019.
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China has sent its Shandong aircraft carrier for military training in the South China Sea and plans to continue similar exercises, the state-owned Global Times said.
The training conducted by the People’s Liberation Army’s Shandong aircraft carrier task group is “a routine exercise,” the paper said on Twitter Sunday, citing a PLA Navy spokesperson. It didn’t give exact timings for the exercises.