Russia's experience with drones vs. her guided missile cruisers has more than enough there to translate to more capable aircraft carriers.
China has (checks wikipedia) three operational carriers, one very modern Fujian, the obsolete former training ship Liaoning, and Shandong, which appears to be halfway between the two, the first locally built carrier. During WW2, the US fielded ... 111 aircraft carriers. Just a whole different order of magnitude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_aircraft_carrier_Liaon... (interesting and varied history!)
And would have absolutely no way to reach that scale again. Or the equivalent in drone production, which is why it’s absolutely preposterous to take a hostile attitude towards our closest neighbors and trade and potentially put our geographical advantages at risk.
I was reading something that said militarily, the US is now in the same position that Japan was prior to WWII because we've outsourced so much of our production.
What they need and they have is enough weapons to destroy any US aircraft carrier approaching their coast.
Naval power doesn't mean just aircraft carriers and China has 100x shipbuilding capacity US has.
