#PRC: Fujian in sea trials; unknown airwing. James Fanell, co-author of Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure and government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 9 May 2024
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#PRC: Fujian in sea trials; unknown airwing. James Fanell, co-author of Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure and government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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| 0:42.0 | Gordon Chiang, we race to Europe, to Switzerland, to Jim Finel. |
| 0:46.0 | U.S. Navy retired Captain Intelligence to help me understand a headline from the South China Morning Post, heavily influenced by the Chinese Communist Party. |
| 0:55.0 | Jim, a good day to you. What is the Fujiyan? It's a lot of excitement in South China Morning Post. |
| 1:02.0 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:03.0 | Good evening, John and Gordon. |
| 1:05.0 | The Fujian is the People's Republic of China's third aircraft carrier |
| 1:10.0 | that they have now commissioned, this Fujiun just completed today eight days of |
| 1:16.6 | sea trials in the East China Sea and she's a unique aircraft care in the sense |
| 1:21.7 | that she's broken with the first two that were |
| 1:24.7 | conventionally powered but had only ski jump ramps to launch aircraft, not like our Navy has steam-powered catapults and now our latest carrier |
| 1:36.0 | the George Gerald Ford has this electromagnetic system. The Chinese now with |
| 1:40.5 | the Fujian have introduced the electromagnetic aircraft launch system. |
| 1:44.7 | They have three, uh, uh, uh, launches, three catapults that will now use electromagnetics and not steam as we have used for almost 100 years or not |
| 1:55.7 | a hundred years, but since World War II about after World War II. |
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