Lights on for China's first aircraft carrier.

July 29, 2011 by Coatepeque CHINA DEFENSE BLOG

In another sign of progress, the lights are on China's first aircraft carrier, formerly the Soviet "Varyag".  Also notable in this sequence of photos, most of the clutter on deck has been cleared.  It's still anybody's guess when exactly we will see fixed wing aircraft operating on this carrier.  Slowly but surely, we will see it happen.