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In a taped question-and-answer session, Professor Andrew Erickson of the Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute said there is a wide range of contingencies — not involving combat — for which China might be expected to utilize its carrier.
“There is significant potential in the near future to take it overseas for some basic naval diplomacy, to show the flag, so to speak,” he said. “And this will already have tremendous symbolic and psychological effects.”
It might also send the Liaoning on humanitarian missions, such as disaster relief, or into crisis areas to evacuate its own or other citizens.
Erickson said China previously sent warships to Yemen to evacuate foreign nationals from that country as it descended into civil war.
“So the world will be watching what China does with its aircraft carrier, or aircraft carriers, over time,” he said.
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“There is significant potential in the near future to take it overseas for some basic naval diplomacy, to show the flag, so to speak,” he said. “And this will already have tremendous symbolic and psychological effects.”
It might also send the Liaoning on humanitarian missions, such as disaster relief, or into crisis areas to evacuate its own or other citizens.
Erickson said China previously sent warships to Yemen to evacuate foreign nationals from that country as it descended into civil war.
“So the world will be watching what China does with its aircraft carrier, or aircraft carriers, over time,” he said.
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