January 10, 2025 09:46 am (IST)

Make this your homepage

South Asia / Southeast Asia / China

8 labourers still trapped in Assam's flooded mine even after 3 days of rescue ops | SC refuses to hear petitions seeking review of its same-sex marriage judgement, says there is 'no error' | 'They should wind up the alliance': Omar Abdullah on AAP-Congress fight over Delhi elections | Pune woman killed by her colleague in full public view for not paying back his money, no one intervenes | Los Angeles wildfire leaves 5 dead, forces 1 lakh including celebs to flee, Hollywood hills ablazed | PM Modi condoles death of six people in Tirupati stampede incident | Days after condemning Pak airstrikes, India in a first engages with Afghanistan's Taliban regime | 6 dead in stampede near Tirupati temple during token distribution to offer prayers | Prominent journalist-film producer Pritish Nandy dies of cardiac arrest at 73 | Thousands, including Hollywood stars, flee Los Angeles upscale neighbourhood as wildfire engulfs homes

South China Sea

Image: Wallpaper Access

China's aircraft carrier holds drills in South China Sea: Navy

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | May 02, 2021, at 11:34 pm

#China #SouthChinaSea

Beijing/Sputnik: A Chinese aircraft carrier group has recently conducted military exercises in the South China Sea, a navy spokesman said on Sunday.

"The Chinese navy has recently formed an aircraft carrier group headed by the Shandong to conduct exercises in the South China Sea," Gao Xiucheng told a news conference.

He stressed these were routine drills that were completely legitimate and aimed to enhance the navy’s capabilities and safeguard the national sovereignty and security as well as regional stability.

"We hope that the world will view the exercises objectively," the spokesman added.

The Shandong is China’s second aircraft carrier and the first home-made one. China bought the hulk of its first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, from Ukraine.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.