Chinese Like to Fly

       So, all the satellite photos taken over northeast China indicated that there is construction going on of a naval vessel with a large, flat deck.  Read flight deck.  Duh.  =Aircraft Carrier.  The other vessel with that mission, a Ukrainian cast off from 1998, is still lurking about on its mission to train future officers and crew members for the new ship.  The Ukrainian ship, the Liaoning, configured with the upswing foredeck, is nearing the end of its useful life.
      Chinese defense officers announced the obvious that China needed the new carrier to maintain national security along its long Pacific coastline.   This comes at a time of high tensions in the South China Sea over disputed claims to a few piles of exposed rocks that are claimed by several other nations, namely, the Phillipine Islands, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Australia.  In addition, ethnic violence in China's Northwest state has displayed unrest among minority Uighars who claim that the Han-majority Chinese are actively suppressing the Islamists in the region.  They, the Uighars want a separate state-East Turkestan, to be independent.  Radio Free Asia has announced that violence continues to rock the region.
     As part of the Chinese effort to fend off criticism, a full page ad was inserted into the print edition of the WSJ, describing the Chinese economy as ready to rebound in 2016 after slipping in 2015, causing a widening ripple effect on the global economy as international businesses cut back on their own models as the contraction in China weighed on earnings.