Chinas 1st aircraft carrier heads for Western Pacific

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3. China caught up with Russia

Russia has exactly one aircraft carrier.

Note: The Chinese bought their soviet aircraft carrier from cash strapped Ukraine as a stripped down ship:

Originally laid down as the Admiral Kuznetsov class multirole aircraft carrier Riga for the Soviet Navy, she was launched on December 4, 1988, and renamed Varyag in 1990.[5] The stripped hulk was purchased in 1998 by the People's Republic of China and towed to Dalian shipyard in northeast China. After being completely rebuilt and undergoing sea trials, the ship was commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) as Liaoning with the class name Type 001 on September 25, 2012. In November 2016, the political commissar of the Liaoning, Senior Captain Li Dongyou, stated that the Liaoning was combat ready.

Varyag under tow in the Bosphorus through İstanbul