All about China's new aircraft carrier

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00:00China has commissioned its latest aircraft carrier after extensive sea trials.

00:05Here's what to know.

00:07The Fujian is China's third aircraft carrier, and the first that it has both designed and

00:12built itself.

00:13The carrier adds to what is already the world's largest navy.

00:17The carrier will allow its navy to expand its area of operations and contest waters

00:22as far as Guam.

00:24It's part of Chinese President Xi Jinping's massive military overhaul and expansion, one

00:28that hopes to have a modernised force by 2035 becoming world-class by mid-century.

00:35Experts believe this is intended to make China's navy capable of going toe-to-toe with the

00:40US.

00:41But China's carriers still aren't nuclear-powered, limiting their range.

00:45It only has three conventionally-powered carriers to the US Navy's 11 nuclear-powered ones.

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