The Pearl in the Great China Fleet

... up its lofty territorial claims and confirm its status as a means of projecting the country’s power to the world, the PLA Navy has initiated a large-scale programme to build an aircraft carrier fleet. All That Money Can Buy In developing its navy,... ... unsuccessful attempts to build “Stalin’s Big Fleet,” as it was called [1] , which was supposed to include aircraft carriers (the first such proposals were heard when the Russian Empire was still in existence ), the Soviet Navy was ...