China’s new weapons-testing range containing a mock-up US aircraft carrier is aimed at deterring military intervention by Washington in regional security issues, defence observers said. Satellite images taken by Maxar Technologies showed the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had built targets in the shapes of an American aircraft carrier and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers at a new shooting range in the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang , hinting that China’s Rocket Force was resuming tests of its anti-ship ballistic missiles. “Compared with their previous tests and based on the sizes of warship mock-ups, [the images suggest that] the PLA has stepped up tests…