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“The Chinese are looking deliberately to do something that they’ve never done before,” one expert said.

When China's first domestically designed and built aircraft carrier slid into the water last month at a shipyard outside Shanghai, it was seen as a symbol of Beijing's fast-growing military might and ambition to develop a "blue water" navy capable of operating far beyond its own shores.

When China's first domestically-designed and built aircraft carrier slid into the water last month at a shipyard outside Shanghai, it was seen -- at home and abroad -- as a symbol of Beijing's fast-growing military might and ambition to develop a "blue water" navy capable of operating far beyond its own shores.

At a National Review Institute conference last week, neoconservatives tried to rebrand as the true realists. They didn't quite pull it off.

China's investment in anti-ship weaponry poses a "major problem" for the US Navy's ability to fight in the Indo-Pacific, a Singapore-based analyst told Breaking Defense.