You said that they have one old carrier, and that it caught on fire.
I’m not putting words in your mouth, bud, that is exactly what you said.
The reality, they have three carriers, at sea, and they have several more in various phases of construction. Real carriers. Better than the UK because they have a catapult design. Nearly equal to our own.
Rose colored glasses allow you to pretend that things are better than they are.
So, it is quite clear I am not the one with rose colored glasses. I am not wishing away potential problems by grossly under-stating another nation’s capabilities. Everything I have told you in this thread comes from unclassified sources. Not rhetoric. Not politics. Facts on what the Chinese have said, publicly, what they have done, what they plan to do.
I am a realist. I am aware of the military build up and capabilities of other nations. Not just the Chinese. Comes from decades of having a vested interest in the military landscape and being involved in analysis to define future US capability needs.
I am not faulting the Chinese for their ambitions, but I am accurate on what they are doing to achieve those ambitions and I am not pretending that the ambitions, and the build up, are not happening just to feel better about the current state of world affairs.