China's official Global Times on February 8, 2015, said that the technology to be provided by the United States to India 'does not only help to prevent the People's Liberation Army from entering Indian Ocean, but also to reduce Russian influence in the region'. Observing that 'Russia has been a major supplier of weaponry to China, India and Vietnam since the days of Cold War and that Russia has been attempting to establish a stable alliance between China and India to counter the West', it said already the INS Vishal's designs are inspired more by America than Russia and it is likely to be built with the angled flight decks currently used aboard different classes of US aircraft carriers. Also, the INS Vishal hopes to obtain the technology to create an Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System from the United States. It added that once India begins to design its aircraft carrier with US technology, it will eventually purchase American carrier-based aircraft like the F-35C fighter and E-2D early warning aircraft as well. The Global Times claimed that the combined value of the new carrier and the aircraft could total US$10 billion. , according to Global Times.It added too that 'once the new craft is completed, Russian assistance will no longer be needed either and that with the inking of this deal, Russia's goal to form an Asian security partnership with China and India seems to be a nonstarter'. The Global Times quoted PLA Navy Rear Admiral Li Jie as suggesting that 'India should take longer to consider its purchase of American technologies'. According to him, the sudden change of equipment and systems 'would turn all the Indian Navy's accumulated knowledge on carrier operation into nothing'.
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