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Chinese aircraft carrier, Liaoning, will conduct military exercises in the western Pacific amid tensions with the US. 

BEIJING - Chinese news reported Chinese aircraft carrier, Liaoning, will take part in military exercises in the Western Pacific. Liaoning will be part of the formation of national navies broader sent to the region.

"Liaoning will conduct military exercises in the Western Pacific," said a spokesman for People's Liberation Army Navy, Liang Yang, so the China Global Times as quoted from Russia Today, Sunday (25/12/2016).

It is believed to be the first time the aircraft carrier to participate in the open sea training.
On Saturday, Liaoning joined the Navy war games taking place in the Yellow Sea. In latikan that Liaoning has the support of destroyers and frigates. The exercise also involves the fighter jet made in China's own J-15, which was assigned to fly from Liaoning.

China's Defense Ministry also announced that the aircraft carrier is scheduled to cross-sea training and testing. According to the Global Times, Liaoning will conduct further training in other parts of the maritime area of ​​China which include the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea and South China Sea.

Liaoning is the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov class that was originally launched for the Soviet Union in 1988. China gained boat that was intact from Ukraine ten years later and operates the aircraft carrier was in 2012.

Potential air deployment to the Western Pacific will come amid rising tensions between the United States (US) and China. South China Sea region, where Liaoning operate, has become one of the reasons behind the tensions between the United States (US) and China.

Both the US and China accusing each other perform saber rattling and military deployment. China claims the South China Sea is its territory and often prevent the US Navy patrol says legitimate to do so because of the freedom of navigation.