TAIPEI - Taiwan's Ministry of Defense said in a report called China is building two aircraft carriers. One carrier that is equivalent to the size of Liaoning ship, aircraft carrier Soviet legacy that weighs 60 tons.
Ministry report was made to analyze the ability of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China. So far only a few who know about China's aircraft carrier program, which is a state secret, although the Chinese government media often writes a report that suggests China is building a new military ships.
Pentagon United States (US) in a report earlier this year said Beijing could build several aircraft carrier within the next 15 years.
According to the Ministry of Defense of Taiwan, one of China's aircraft carrier being built in Shanghai and the other built in a town in northeast Dalian. A copy of the report received by Reuters on Thursday (09/03/2015), it does not predict when the manufacture of two Chinese aircraft carrier was completed.
The ministry sources used in compiling the report was an intelligence unit at the Ministry of Defense of Taiwan. The report will be sent to parliament this week.
Taiwan intelligence agencies continue to monitor the development of China's military, because Beijing has never left the option to use military force to subdue Taiwan is considered a renegade Chinese province.
"(Aircraft carrier) will be assigned to service the Chinese navy, command unit will be set up with the aim to join forces and speed up combat capabilities," the report from the Ministry of Defense of Taiwan on China's military analysis.
Liaoning ship Soviet legacy of China bought from Ukraine in 1998. The carrier has been taking part in military exercises, including in the South China Sea disputed between China and some Asian countries.
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