The Yantai (538), a Type 054A frigate of China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), provides an escort ahead of the Liaoning aircraft carrier into the Lamma Channel as it arrives in Hong Kong territorial waters on July 7, 2017. China's national defence ministry had said the Liaoning, named after a northeastern Chinese province, was part of a flotilla on a "routine training mission" and would make a port of call in the former British colony. / AFP PHOTO / TENGKU Bahar (Photo credit should read TENGKU BAHAR/AFP/Getty Images)
