Commentary On April 26, Xinhua, the mouthpiece of the communist regime, published an article to commemorate a Chinese carrier-based J-15 fighter jet pilot, who died in an accident as a result of his jet’s electronic control system malfunctioning during a landing; the article inadvertently revealed the weakness of the carrier’s combat capabilities. There have always been doubts about the true capability of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aircraft carriers and their carrier-based J-15 pilot training. This unprecedented report appears more of an attempt to restore public confidence, as the CCP’s media rarely publicizes such accidents involving the military. In fact, the Xinhua article revealed the story about Zhang Chao, a former naval first-class fighter jet pilot who was killed in a carrier landing practice five years ago, while at the same time, it claimed that the carrier-based fighter jet J-15 “achieved the technical breakthrough in night takeoff and landing,” in …