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    ASIA / PACIFIC
Page 16 n THE ASIAN REPORTER
May 21, 2018
China’s first home-built aircraft carrier begins sea trials
BEIJING (AP) — China’s first entirely
home-built aircraft carrier has begun sea
trials in a sign of the growing sophistica-
tion of the country’s domestic arms
industry.
The still-unnamed ship left dock in the
northern port of Dalian to “test the
reliability and stability of its propulsion
and other systems,” the Defense Ministry
said in a statement.
The Liaoning provincial maritime safety
bureau issued an order for shipping to
temporarily avoid a section of ocean
southeast of the city.
The 50,000-ton carrier will likely be
formally commissioned sometime before
2020 following the completion of sea trials
and the arrival of its full air complement.
The new carrier is based on the former
Soviet Union’s Kuznetsov class design,
with a ski jump-style deck for taking off
and a conventional oil-fuelled steam
turbine power plant.
China’s first aircraft carrier, the
Liaoning, arrived as a mostly empty hull
from Ukraine and was commissioned in
Family photo becomes new
picture of militancy in Indonesia
Continued from page 4
momentum,” he said. “And
they don’t want to lose it.”
Using women and chil-
dren in militant attacks
has long been a tactic
deployed in other countries
— Nigerian terror group
Boko Haram often uses
children
as
suicide
bombers.
Experts say more than
1,000 Indonesians have
gone abroad to help IS, and
their return raises new
worries.
“We’ve got hundreds of
fighters
coming
back.
Probably the Indonesians
don’t even know how many
are coming back,” said
Bilveer Singh, a political
science professor at the
National University of
Singapore. “If you don’t get
this thing right, then you
are going to get more and
more terrorist attacks in
the coming months and
years.”
He said the buildup to
Indonesia’s
presidential
election next year coupled
with growing religious in-
tolerance could spark new
violence, especially if Islam
is used as a politicizing
weapon. President Joko
“Jokowi”
Widodo
has
struggled to push through
anti-terror
legislation
proposed since 2016 which
would make it easier for
law enforcement officers to
go after extremists. In
condemning the recent
attacks, he vowed to issue
an emergency presidential
decree
if
parliament
continues to drag its feet.
“I’m not afraid of the
bombing. I think it’s the
rising radicalization and
growing intolerance of
Indonesia,” Singh said. “It
has been moving in a very
dangerous way, and it has
not been stopped. And I
think the danger of
Indonesia is not tomorrow.
The danger of Indonesia is
in the next five to 10 years.”
Associated Press writer Niniek
Karmini in Surabaya, Indonesia,
contributed to this report.
2012 along with its flight wing of Chinese
J-15 fighter jets.
State media reports say China is also
MADE IN CHINA. An aircraft carrier is seen leav-
ing Dalian in northeast China’s Liaoning province for
sea trials. The country’s first entirely home-built air-
craft carrier began sea trials in a sign of the growing
sophistication of China’s domestic arms industry.
The 50,000-ton carrier will likely be formally commis-
sioned sometime before 2020. (Li Gang/Xinhua via
AP)
planning to build a nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier capable of remaining at sea
for long durations.
China has the world’s largest navy in
terms of numbers of ships, although it lags
behind the U.S. in technology and combat
capabilities.
It has been deployed to assert China’s
claim to virtually the entire South China
Sea and is increasingly ranging farther
into the Pacific and Indian oceans. China
last year established its first overseas
military base in the Horn of Africa nation
of Djibouti, where rivals such as the U.S.,
Japan, and several European nations also
have a permanent presence.
New owner of Cambodian newspaper begins by firing editor
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) —
The new owner of a newspaper
considered the sole remaining
independent
media
voice
in
Cambodia has fired its editor for
publishing a story about the
publication’s sale and the purchaser’s
links to the government, bolstering
doubts it will continue to perform the
watchdog function of a free press.
The dismissal day of Kay Kimsong,
editor-in-chief of the English and
Khmer language editions of the
Phnom Penh Post, was followed by
the resignations of at least four senior
editorial personnel.
The
newspaper’s
sale
by
Australian businessman Bill Clough
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to Sivakumar Ganapathy, a public
relations executive in Malaysia, was
announced in early May.
The Post reported that his PR
company had done business for the
government of Prime Minister Hun
Sen, which has curtailed press
freedom ahead of a July general
election.