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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The shipyard in question indeed appears to be an impressive sight to behold. There, one can see a total of nine newly constructed destroyers lined along the quay and docked in an inner shipyard basin. By contrast, the entire UK Royal Navy has a total of just six similar-class vessels, Forbes notes.
As if it was not enough, the same shipyard is also building China’s newest aircraft carrier – the third in a row. The second one, called the Shandong, was commissioned by the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) earlier this week. Designed to carry 36 J-15 fighter jets, it is China’s first fully domestically produced carrier.
The one under construction at the Shanghai shipyard is expected to be even bigger and better. In particular, it will have an electromagnetic catapult – just like the US Navy’s
newest carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford.
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John Pilger reveals that the world’s greatest military power, the United States, and the world’s second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, are on the road to war.
unless china attacks a country and utilizes their hardware, their military is just that a paper military, lakini wacha we wait, I am sure we will default on the debt, lets see what they will do to us.
“It is easier for China to increase its fleet numbers as it is the world’s biggest shipbuilder. They have immense shipyard capacities, which the US lacks, as its commercial shipbuilding has been thrown into disarray over the past decades,” says Vasily Kashin, Far East researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Chinese military strategic plan is more about defensive capabilities. they see how the US manoeuvres like a bully in the highly contested South China sea and they would like to counter that.
Gone are the days when having the most ships mean’t you owned the seas.
Russians have only 1 aircraft carrier yet The Americans consider them a much bigger threat than the Chinese because of their missile system which is the most advanced.
The world’s largest exporter by value, China shipped US$2.294 trillion worth of products around the globe in 2018 according to the latest statistics reported by the International Trade Centre.
That dollar amount results from a 6.5% gain since 2014 and a 10.2% increase from 2017 to 2018.
Applying a continental lens, about half (47.8%) of Chinese exports by value were delivered to fellow Asian countries while 22.4% were sold to North American importers. China shipped another 19.1% worth to clients in Europe.
Lesser percentages of China’s total exported goods arrived in Africa (4.21%), Latin America (4.17%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, Oceania (2.3%) led by Australia and New Zealand.[ATTACH=full]276862[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]276863[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]276864[/ATTACH]