{"id":1463397,"date":"2022-05-04T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T12:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1463397"},"modified":"2022-05-04T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T12:31:07","slug":"massive-chinese-naval-fleet-spotted-barrelling-towards-u-s-naval-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massive-chinese-naval-fleet-spotted-barrelling-towards-u-s-naval-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Chinese Naval Fleet Spotted Barrelling Towards U.S. Naval Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmassive-chinese-naval-fleet-spotted-barrelling-towards-u-s-naval-base%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1463397&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The largest Chinese aircraft carrier group reportedly ever assembled is conducting combat training near a U.S. naval base in Japan, according to multiple Chinese media sources on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s aircraft carrier \u201cLiaoning,\u201d as well as seven other vessels, are reportedly performing a naval expedition in close proximity to Nagasaki, Japan, and the U.S. Navy base at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnic.navy.mil\/regions\/cnrj\/installations\/cfa_sasebo.html\">Sasebo<\/a>, according to a Tuesday report from China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sina.cn\/2022-05-03\/detail-imcwipii7718483.d.html?from=wap\">Observer News<\/a> translated by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airpac.navy.mil\/Organization\/USS-Abraham-Lincoln-CVN-72\/\">USS Abraham Lincoln<\/a> aircraft carrier is also in the vicinity, according to the report. <span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/27\/chinese-military-taiwan-strait-us-destroyer\/\"><b>(RELATED: Chinese Military Stalks US Destroyer In Taiwan Strait)<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Naval Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2022\/05\/02\/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-may-2-2022\">fleet tracker<\/a> placed both the USS Abraham Lincoln, as well as the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier in the waters near Sasebo on May 2.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s naval expedition comes a week after its military reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/27\/chinese-military-taiwan-strait-us-destroyer\/\">shadowed<\/a> a U.S. Navy destroyer conducting a freedom of navigation exercise in the Taiwan Strait last Tuesday. <span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/17\/taiwan-fighting-spirit-beijing\/\"><b>(RELATED: Taiwan\u2019s Fighting Spirit: \u2018Rational Assessment Does Not Favor Beijing\u2019)<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s military news outlet confirmed its nation\u2019s aircraft carrier group was operating in the western Pacific Ocean in a Tuesday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.81.cn\/yw\/2022-05\/03\/content_10152014.htm\">bulletin<\/a> translated by the DCNF, but stated the \u201croutine training operation\u201d was \u201cnot directed against any party.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7421962\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7421962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three F\/A-18E Super Hornets fly in formation over the aircraft carriers USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), USS Nimitz (CVN 68) and their strike groups along with ships from the Republic of Korea Navy as they transit the Western Pacific, November 12, 2017. (Courtesy Aaron B. Hicks\/U.S. Navy\/Handout via REUTERS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The total tonnage for this iteration of the Liaoning\u2019s aircraft carrier group is reportedly the largest formation ever assembled in the history of the People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy, according to an opinion piece from China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/view.inews.qq.com\/a\/20220503A0548L00?tbkt=A&#038;uid=\">Tencent News<\/a> translated by the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft carrier group\u2019s estimated collective \u201clong-range precision strike capability\u201d also reportedly surpassed that of any U.S. aircraft carrier formation, China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/xw.qq.com\/amphtml\/20220503A01JH800\">NetEase News<\/a> claimed, according to a translation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Liaoning aircraft carrier, the Chinese naval formation is reportedly composed of four destroyers, a guided missile frigate and a supply ship, according to the report from The Observer.<\/p>\n<p>While no Chinese submarines were identified as serving within the Liaoning aircraft carrier formation, the opinion piece from Tencent News does \u201cnot rule out\u201d that a People\u2019s Liberation Army nuclear submarine is also operating alongside the strike group, citing the standard operating procedures of U.S. aircraft carrier groups which reportedly are always escorted by such vessels.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest Chinese aircraft carrier group reportedly ever assembled is conducting combat training near a U.S. naval base in Japan, according to multiple Chinese media sources on Tuesday.China\u2019s aircraft carrier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}