Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with representatives of the aircraft carrier unit and the manufacturer at a naval port in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province on December 17, 2019. © Global Look Press / Li Gang
RT: Sleeping dragon no more: China about to replace US as strongest naval power and Washington is too late to stop it
China might soon shift the world naval balance and unseat the US as the modern master of the seas. The process appears to already be under way, and there is little that Washington can do about stopping it.
Visibly shaken by what it has seen on a photo showing just one of China's military shipyards near Shanghai, the business magazine Forbes recently told its readers an alarming story about the "impressive rate" and "vast scale" of Chinese naval modernization.
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Update #1: This One Tweet Shows the Fast-Paced Rise of China's Navy (Popular Mechanics)
Update #2: Report to Congress on Chinese Naval Modernization (USNI News)
WNU Editor: I have been told by a contact that I trust in Beijing that China's ultimate goal is to have a 500 ship navy (this does not include its maritime militia). I do not know if this is possible, but their ship-building program is very aggressive.
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