[Retain Mike]

For the last few years now there have been reports to Congress about the progress the PRC has made to develop its armed forces. The below report is the most comprehensive I have seen and the first I have seen in which they are reported to have a larger Navy than ours. You can change the text size, so you can read it.

By the way, how come there has been is so much focus on Russia, which has such a limited, natural resource economy, and so little on China, which produces an enormous number of products other people will buy?

[Soul of the South]

I can remember when one of the key tenants of US defense policy was to maintain at least a 400 ship navy.

[Dr. Zzyzx]

Seems that if they’re at 350, and we’re at 293, they’ve had the largest navy for quite some time now,

[Seruzawa]

Yes, but how many ships of what class? China has lots of patrol size craft. Good for coastal waters. But their ability to send the Navy across the ocean to attack anyone is severely limited. Not enough support/logistics. Of course that will change.

We will have one advantage. We won’t have a slave Army.

[baclava]

They have 2 carriers, we have 11 nuclear carriers w/battle groups.

I imagine their numbers come from gunboats, coastal patrol ships, I aint askeered.I

Or maybe could be Pentagon sniffing around for more budget, ‘We Need More Toyz admirals’, lol

[BobL]

Doesn’t matter, we spend twice as much on our military as China. Therefore we are INVINCIBLE!

[sergeantdave]

Another “China is Superman” report from the Romney wing of the moldering dead McCain party.

[SuperLuminal]

Yeah! But the U.S. has the highest rate in the world of diversity, perversity, collisions, and pregnancy on it’s ships...

Take that you chicom scum! You’ll never catch up to us...