Carrier aviation and the claim of an orbital threat

Why is China building carriers if the X-37 could destroy them from orbit?

The claimed X-37 capability is questioned, while carriers still provide mobile bases for sustaining and rearming aircraft beyond land-based support.

A viewer asks why China is building carriers if the X-37 could destroy them from orbit. That claimed orbital attack capability is treated as unproven in this 2021 discussion. Carriers provide organic air power for forces operating beyond the reach of a fixed land base. Shore facilities have fixed locations and support systems that create vulnerabilities of their own. Aerial refuelling extends endurance but does not reload weapons or replace an exhausted pilot. Drones also need somewhere to rearm, so the argument for a mobile aviation base remains relevant to unmanned aircraft.