[The Duke]

How many of those 1000’s of ships are blue water? How many total tons of displacement compared to the US Navy?

[Red6]

Ship production by nation:

https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4D22AQFs-zgjP09_dA/feedshare-shrink_800/B4DZbsq75IHQAg-/0/1747727401588?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=DyYdsDQ7AXhnsvg_W6STr-yrJ5ML4HNUyKlnJS_mnuw

And: https://www.seaconcrew.com/industry-news/67.html

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In the bigger picture:

They have 180% our manufacturing base: https://www.statista.com/chart/20858/top-10-countries-by-share-of-global-manufacturing-output/

Steel production: https://www.voronoiapp.com/economy/China-and-India-Lead-in-Global-Steel-Production—5623

Aluminum production: https://www.mining.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-3-737x1024.png

Glass production: https://www.statista.com/statistics/702188/flat-glass-production-share-globally-by-region/?srsltid=AfmBOorCSt1UUhGN-LmMAqneUuJa-Qk8EkyHGJJBGSl1UkxDpKfmDxBI

Car production: https://www.voronoiapp.com/automotive/China-Accounted-For-About-a-Third-of-Global-Car-Production-in-2023—3449

Cell phone production: https://www.globaltimes.cn/Portals/0/attachment/2025/2025-01-16/de455c68-574c-49ce-993d-793bdee430c2.png

Drone production: https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/V2B7kbdnDRK7YLLPDSef0W6r0u9mMatBShiAQtC9.webp

Concrete usage: https://www.worldcementassociation.org/images/info-graphics/001-World-Wide-Cement-Production.jpg

Plastic production: https://filesblog.bizvibe.com/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/uploads/2020/03/Top-Plastic-Item-Exports-by-Country.png.webp

Photovoltaic cells: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/5_Largest_Producers_of_Solar_Photovoltaics%2C_%25_of_Total_World_Solar_PV_Production_2001-10.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=index&utm_content=original

Polyester production: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mnm-Azlin/publication/345973127/figure/fig1/AS:958724868931585@1605589229475/World-consumption-of-polyester-fibre-23.ppm

Semi conductor production: https://www.statista.com/chart/25552/semiconductor-manufacturing-by-location/?srsltid=AfmBOopisgAv74khABfbuqzCM5Hsc4ZTPw-2bFg9ad4hCLLwoJlKEQqg

Electricity production: https://www.voronoiapp.com/energy/-China-Generated-More-Electricity-in-2024-Than-the-US-EU—India-Combined-5260 or https://www.globaltimes.cn/Portals/0/attachment/2024/2024-07-31/4401eb94-d6c1-42d8-b840-7f196e942b5f.png

Laptop production: https://cdn.howmuch.net/articles/new_computer-devices-exports-by-country-copy-50e2.jpg

China passed us in PPP in 2014 and since then has grown at a faster rate anally, consistently, despite all our predictions and schadenfreude (wishful thinking) predicting bubbles bursting, wide spread corruption causing an economic slow down, and inflated economic reports causing a correction in the future: https://statisticstimes.com/economy/united-states-vs-china-economy.php (They are averaging about 5% annually while we are growing at roughly half that rate).

Internet users by country: https://internetacrosstheworld.weebly.com/uploads/3/7/1/3/37131827/3684971_orig.png

STEM patents by country: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Patent-Grants-by-Country-of-Origin.html

Engineers by country: https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/7913.jpeg

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China became a monster a long time ago.

Perceptions lag reality.

Folks are just today realizing or accepting what has been true for a while.

However, what is alarming is that while China has been an economic powerhouse for a while, they have in more recent times begun to apply a greater share of their wealth and tech to their war industry, and that is a concern: https://www.reddit.com/r/LessCredibleDefence/comments/18zc8oa/global_military_spending_in_2022/#lightbox

The are massively modernizing their armed forces, and who they are seeing as their threat is obvious: https://news.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/China-Carrier-Target-Maxar.jpg or https://news.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Chinese-Navy-Targets-In-Desert-New-Aircraft-Carrier.jpeg