With the expansion of the Chinese carrier, the seas in East Asia have become familiar causes of close confrontations between the opposition strike groups.
Bind to US Central Sovereignty (CENTCOM) of responsibility, US Carl Vinson (CVN 70) is transferred through Malaga Strait On Friday, April 4, 2025. The carrier was requested to the Middle East to reinforce the USS Harry S. Truman, which is currently participating in combat operations against the Houthi forces in Yemen.
Vinson has spent the past few months at work all over East Asia, and last month of experienced month Near confrontations with a Russian naval plane. It is expected that his place will be assumed in the American Seventh Fleet USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Once she reaches the area.
A clock strike is launched against the Houthis from 🇺🇸uss Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea.
Additional strikes on Yemen by USAF B-2 launchers operating from Diego Garcia.
Uss Carl Vinson Csg is on its way to the Middle East from the Pacific Ocean. pic.twitter.com/zx2jb8l6xe
– Navy Lookout (Navylookout) April 5, 2025
Meanwhile, to the northeast, the Chinese company Shandong has performed wide operations in southern China and the Philippine seas around Taiwan. Ships were monitored by the Japanese military forces, which stated that the carrier had dozens of air mountains with the fixed wing and the circle wing aircraft.
JSDF 🇯🇵 has released PLA-N Shangdong and has shown the southern fleet ships has conducted bids/landing in the Pacific and withdrawing to the South China Sea today: https://t.co/kj4Iqq33xg (JPN only).
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■ kuznetsov aircraft category aircraft carrier Shandong … https://t.co/vrzcwc5gjb pic.twitter.com/cksx0rilhz– Song’s Defense Watch🇦🇺🇯🇵 (@Songs349) April 3, 2025
The Chinese carrier group, along with other Chinese forces, participated in a large -scale exercise that mimics the fighting in the water near Taiwan. This will be the last exercise of many People’s Republic of China (PRC) that put pressure on Taiwan, known as the Republic of China, which the People’s Republic of China considers as an illegal separatist region.
These repeated exercises from Taiwan from the Taiwan forces have exacerbated Designed specifically for the major amphibious assault From the D-Day range in World War II.
#video The leadership of the Eastern Theater in the Popular Liberation Army (PLA) published on Wednesday the duties of the Shandong Aircraft Company to simulate strikes on the ground and marine targets in areas to east of Taiwan Island. #Taiwan pic.twitter.com/1uddev10t9
– China News News (@Ichinanews) April 2, 2025
Last week, Chinese warships developed Taiwan and carried out the Raad -2025A -the first major military exercise in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army for this year.
The rehearsals were characterized by a blockade of the main areas, long -range missile training, and the carrier -east OPS.
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Ian Ellis (Anilisjon) April 6, 2025
Shandong is the latest and most advanced In the active service With Navy Army Army (plan) liberating the people, awaiting the official assignment of the type 003 fuijan. Type 001 Liaoning, which was built in the Soviet Union as the Kuznetsov Class Category, was built locally according to a rate design.
Missile silos were deleted on the deck under the flight that appeared on the original Kuznetsov design, adding an additional barn area to allow a larger air wing, and the ski jumping slope was modified with a slightly shallow mile to suit the Chiniang J-15 fighter from China.


With Fuijan, it is expected to enter full service over the next few years, China will turn from short takeoff but Recovery (Stobar) has been arrested to full aid to help but the RCOVEY (CATOBAR). The type 003 remains traditional, with the step to the planned nuclear payment of the future type 004 category.
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While during all these operations, hundreds, if not thousands of miles, separated the aircraft carrier groups, the area of the carrier’s group effect extends easily across similar distances. Wide -range aircraft operations may require large amounts of airspace, and sometimes hundreds of miles from the carrier itself, to allow the separation of safe aircraft. This means even running two carriers at the same time in the same sea without close cooperation that raises the possibility of conflict.
Karl Vinson and Shandong has been close to meeting a number of occasions over the years since the latter was activated.
The Shandong aircraft carrier northwest of the Spratley Islands monitored on September 11, while USS Carl Vinson in the southwestern part of the South China Sea.
The Chinese carrier seems to sail south to avoid a tropical storm. He returned to Sanya yesterday. pic.twitter.com/jz8be1BPQ0
Duandang September 14, 2021
The Filipino Sea also crowns three aircraft carriers: USS Ronald Reagan, USS Vinson, and China’s China. pic.twitter.com/dw5ybqqdpv
Duandang November 3, 2023
Also, the aircraft carriers in other countries are not strangers in East Asia waters, as Charles de Gaulle, which actually joined the French nuclear energy company, joined the US Carl Vinson as well as the Japanese light carrier JS Kaga (DDH-184) in the Philippine Sea.
Charles de Gaulle is currently participating in Clementau 25 PublishingWhich has also seen it operating along with the allied forces in the Middle East and the Indian Ocean.


Later in 2025, with French publication approaching its end, it is expected to leave the HMS Prince of Wales (R09) Europe and eventually sail across the South China Sea to Japan during CSG 25 Publishing. In many ways, this will reiterate the CSG 21 publication by the sister ship HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08), which works in itself Relatively near Shandong.
Prince Wales is expected to carry up to 24 F-35B Lightning IIS, although the AW101 Merlin helicopter is on the “Crowsnest” air that provides a shorter range compared to E-2 Hawkeyes from the United States and French carriers, which may reduce opportunities to monitor Chinese maritime activity.
At some point during the publication of the CSG 25, it is almost confirmed that the carrier group will meet with the American Transportation Companies Group-Nimitz CSG, or Japan-based George CSG-for a similar photo exercise as a cancellation with Vinson and Charles Deulle. As before, this is likely to be The attention of the Chinese press caught the attention of It leads to similar offers for the force of the Chinese navy.