is basically based on a report. So there is no need to read the AP news; please proceed directly to the report.
How Does China's First Aircraft Carrier Stack Up? Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), undated (under the heading "ChinaPower; Unpacking the complexity of China's rise"). http://chinapower.csis.org/aircraft-carrier/
Note: The report in undated; Google does not have the information when it was created. However, the interviewee Andrew Erickson has a Web posting that said he was interviewed on Apr 20, 2016.
How Does China's First Aircraft Carrier Stack Up? Apr 21, 2016. http://www.andrewerickson.com/20 ... t-carrier-stack-up/
(20 knots v USS Ronald Reagan's 30; 24 J-15s v Ronald Reagan's over 55 fixed-wing aircraft)