It's the business of the on-line Asia Times to make one worry, basically about China. It's also a general topic of conversation among US government officials. For some reason the status and future of the PLA Navy is giving them nightmares. The reason is that the Chinese have committed to building a large and effective navy and the US is either unwilling or unable to respond in kind.
Photo Reuters/Bobby Yip
The first Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning, as described by International Business Times.
It isn't that the US is impoverished or lacks the expertise to weld together the components of navy or commercial vessels. The Yankees are more committed to assembling fields of solar panels shipped from China, installing phalanxes of wind turbines offshore and in farm fields, sequestering liquid carbon dioxide in rural North Dakota and trying to convince everyone to buy an EV . China is actually doing most of the same things, but how?
Uncle Sam, with a defense budget that's bigger than the rest of the world combined, can't seem to put together a believable audit of the Pentagon and has a total budget shortfall in the trillions.
Why should Americans worry about a bigger Chinese navy anyway? The Chinese ships mostly sail around in the waters adjacent, never seen off Miami or Malibu. If they actually did present some kind of a threat to the US mainland or anywhere else couldn't the vaunted US navy easily fend them off with the effective and expensive weaponry at their disposal?
Time marches on and commentators say that the US navy is outdated and obsolete. Won't that also be the case with that of the Chinese in a few years if the US can somehow resist the temptation of trying to blow them up?
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