BEIJING: Beijing flexed its military muscle this week as its sole operational aircraft carrier apparently took part in a huge naval drill with dozens of other vessels in the South China Sea, satellite images showed.

The pictures, taken by Planet Labs Inc., appear to show the Liaoning carrier at the center of a formation of more than 40 other ships lined up in pairs south of China’s Hainan province island on Monday.

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