The US slip is showing

China has made it clear to the world that its first aircraft carrier, a refitted Soviet-era vessel, is for scientific research and training. Despite this, the maiden run of the carrier has flustered the United States, which already has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service.

Having an aircraft carrier will not change China's defensive defense policy. China is fully aware of its international responsibility toward world peace and stability, a fact the US State Department has challenged while demanding that Beijing explain why it has built an aircraft carrier.

This is unbecoming of the US, whose politicians and their partisan politics over the government debt crisis have pushed the world into an economic and social turmoil. By targeting China for having an aircraft carrier, which still has not been fully commissioned, the US is trying to shift the focus away from the mess it has created.