At the Ikea store in Dalian, the city in north-eastern China, most customers last Thursday were middle-aged women sifting through textiles and tableware.
In the bedding department, however, the activity was more unusual. One man was aiming a camera on a tripod through a glass door, zooming in on a ship across the harbour: China’s first aircraft carrier.
Bought in 1998 from Ukraine as an unfinished hull, the Soviet-designed carrier Varyag is being given what Xinhua, the official news agency, says are the finishing touches.
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