Yep. These ships are not useful as combat ships, their real purpose is to train the chink Navy how to operate carriers, it will be years before they have a ship with real combat capability. They look better on paper than in real life. And their presence is a threat, sure, they DO carry some marginal strike ability against weaker enemies. They can be used to harass Taiwan or threaten others in the seas surrounding Japan, Philippines and so on.  They would be near useless, other than as a diversion, in an invasion of Taiwan but the chink mainland is so close they don't need carriers to do that.  The chinks think that with diesel subs and the threat of a carrier force they can back us out of the area enough to allow them to take Taiwan. We do have to honor the threat, even as we understand those carriers are very weak assets still they can sail and launch a few planes. And if the chinks weaken us, like they did with the chinese flu causing the Roos  17  evelt to dock, then the  503e  ir situation looks much better vis-a-vis Taiwan. But yeah, those carriers are for show, not for combat against us. They couldn't hope to land a single round on us while losing both of those platforms. Any time they leave port we have SSNs trailing them or other assets watching, they are never more than a very few minutes away from destruction, if we need to remove them they go the fook away, poof! https://kekpe.pe/i/5ecd2b9680352.jpg