We did not help China get its first aircraft carrier. China's first aircraft carrier is the Liaoning, which they bought from Russia. Their second was built based on the first, not on the Melbourne.
True, but my point still stands: buying a decommissioned WW2 carrier isn't what helped China get its first aircraft carrier. They didn't fast track 40 years of carrier development to get from the Melbourne to the modern age; they just bought a 1980s-era Soviet carrier.
We did not help China get its first aircraft carrier. China's first aircraft carrier is the Liaoning, which they bought from Russia. Their second was built based on the first, not on the Melbourne.
They bought it from Ukraine.
True, but my point still stands: buying a decommissioned WW2 carrier isn't what helped China get its first aircraft carrier. They didn't fast track 40 years of carrier development to get from the Melbourne to the modern age; they just bought a 1980s-era Soviet carrier.