This photograph captured on January 24, 2025, by the United States Landsat 8-9 satellites shows the Chinese navy aircraft carrier CNS Liaoning moored at its home port in Qingdao in eastern China.

He sleeps in the one-room shack on the rim, keeping an ear cocked for voices in the dark. In Liaoning Province, located in the rolling farm country of northeastern China, peasant farmers make only ...