The People's Republic of China has just conducted its first public arrested landing of a J15 jet on their carrier the Liaoning, according to Reuters, who provided the video report below.

China has been working to establish carrier capability for some time, so while this isn't surprising, it is a bit ahead of timeline.  And while a few landings of a prototype aircraft aboard a small carrier is a long way from blue-water carrier fleet operations -- by most estimates it will be several years before the Chinese have mastered the complicated art of sustained carrier operations -- it does move the Chinese into the elite club of nations with carrier capability, and makes them one of only three carrier powers in the Western Pacific.  The US and India have the others, though one supposes the Russians could shift their one carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, from the Black Sea if they chose.  Thailand does have a carrier as well, though without an operational air wing it is perhaps an "aircraft carrier" in name only.

That's not bad for the former-Varyag, which the Chinese origially bought supposedly to serve as a floating casino before retrofitting it into the functional Liaoning.

(Edit to add the Thai carrier.)