article_snippet: Last summer, his traveled to Beijing and Liaoning, in China's northeast, to take photos, including images of exhibits at a national defense technology promotion show.
article_snippet: The other man, Zhang, 23, had sent more than 500 pictures of the Liaoning aircraft carrier, named after the province where it was refitted, to a person who claimed to be an editor with a foreign magazine before being detained last August.
article_snippet: Some Internet users questioned whether it was really espionage to take photos of China's aircraft carrier --  even former U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel visited the vessel in 2014.
article_snippet: I have photos of China's aircraft carrier --  , too," one person with the handle @gablio posted on Weibo, China's equivalent to Twitter.
article_snippet: When I flew from Dalian to Beijing two years ago, I saw the vessel clearly on the plane.
article_snippet: Countless people have photographed the vessel.
highlights_snippet: Material includes hundreds of photos of China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning .
  