The Chinese navy confirmed on Saturday that the country's most advanced aircraft carrier, CNS Fujian , will be homeported at a base in the contested South China Sea, where Beijing's territorial claims overlap with those of a number of other countries. The Fujian , China 's third aircraft carrier and its first equipped with electromagnetic catapults to launch heavier fixed-wing aircraft, was commissioned on Wednesday at Yulin Naval Base near Sanya in Hainan province, located north of the South