A commercial satellite company just released this photo of the Varyag, the thousand-foot-long, 55,000 ton beast of a boat that the Chinese military is cruising around the Yellow Sea in a second round of sea tests this month. The world is on edge about China's apparent initiative to jack up their military might, and indeed, it looks scary from above. But not as scary as it does from the ground.
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Adam Clark Estes
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