They won't do it until their aircraft carriers are somewhere close to America's in capability. And at
the moment they are primitive things, strictly for learning on, without good aircraft or enough pilots. They're only just starting to use catapults. It'll take a decade or two for them to get good.
I know, objectively, that it's all sabre rattling and they won't really do anything - just bitch and moan and stir up nationalistic shit on social media. But still, the country is run by people with zero grounding in reality, so I don't trust sensible decisions to be made.
They won't do it until their aircraft carriers are somewhere close to America's in capability. And at
the moment they are primitive things, strictly for learning on, without good aircraft or enough pilots. They're only just starting to use catapults. It'll take a decade or two for them to get good.