China’s Naval Power Surpasses US – US Geopolitical Reach Exceeds its Industrial Grasp

– China’s military power, including naval power is meeting and now exceeding that of the US;

– Chinese shipbuilding, both commercial and military, surpasses the US by multiple times;

– Proposals by US arms manufacturers to meet or exceed Chinese industrial production are fantastical, ignoring the many and multiplying advantages China has and the practical inability of the US to “out-innovate” China and other competitors;

– Methods the US seeks to use to “out-innovate” China are methods already extensively employed across Chinese industry;

References:

AP – U.S. Navy shipbuilding is the worst in 25 years, widening the fleet’s gap with China (August 11, 2024):
https://fortune.com/2024/08/11/us-nav…

US DoD – DOD Releases National Defense Strategy, Missile Defense, Nuclear Posture Reviews (2022):
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Sto…

US DoD – National Defense Industrial Strategy (2023):
https://www.businessdefense.gov/NDIS….

Forbes – The Countries With the Most STEM Graduates (2017):
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmcc…

Porsche, MHP – The Software Race (2023):
https://www.mhp.com/fileadmin/www.mhp…

Defense Once – China is winning the shipbuilding numbers game—and that’s a problem, INDOPACOM nom says (February 2024):
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/20…