FILE - In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, China's third conventionally powered aircraft carrier, the Fujian, conducts a maiden sea trial on May 7, 2024. (Ding Ziyu/Xinhua via AP, File)

FILE- The Liaoning, China's first conventionally powered aircraft carrier, sails into Hong Kong for port call, on July 7, 2017, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) garrison's presence in the semi-autonomous Chinese city and former British colony. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the Nuclear Power Institute of China's Site No. 1, also known as Base 909, in Mucheng Township, Sichuan Province, China, July 5, 2023. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, conventionally powered Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning carries out a dual aircraft carrier formation exercise with the Shandong aircraft carrier, unseen, for the first time in the South China Sea in late October 2024. (Pu Haiyang/Xinhua via AP)

FILE - In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese honor guard raise the Chinese flag during the commissioning ceremony of China's conventionally powered Shandong aircraft carrier at a naval port in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province, on Dec. 17, 2019. (Li Gang/Xinhua via AP, File)

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, conventionally powered Chinese aircraft carriers Liaoning and Shandong carry out a dual aircraft carrier formation exercise for the first time in the South China Sea in late October 2024. (Chen Mengxi/Xinhua via AP)