{"id":134039,"date":"2024-12-06T17:16:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134039"},"modified":"2024-12-06T17:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:16:38","slug":"dwarfed-by-china-in-shipbuilding-us-looks-to-build-its-defense-base-to-fend-off-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134039","title":{"rendered":"Dwarfed by China in shipbuilding, US looks to build its defense base to fend off war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The U.S. severely lags behind China in shipbuilding capacity, lawmakers and experts have warned, as the Biden administration tries to build up the country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ukraine-weapons-taiwan-missiles-stockpiles-28564bbed21f72b9a3c6b3cd9c086bc7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ability to develop and produce weapons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ability to develop and produce weapons<\/a> and other defense supplies to fend off war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Speaking at a congressional hearing Thursday, Rep. John Moolenaar, the Republican chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, said the country lacks the capacity to \u201cdeter and win a fight\u201d with China and called for action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cBold policy changes and significant resources are now needed to restore deterrence and prevent a fight\u201d with China, Moolenaar said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-body md:hidden\">\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-5 flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-xl pb-5 shadow-[0_0_1px_rgba(200,160,251,.63),0_2px_6px_1px_#F3E6FE]\">\n<h4 class=\"m-auto block px-4 pb-4 pt-2 text-lg font-bold leading-6\">Trusted news and daily delights, right in your inbox<\/h4>\n<p class=\"m-auto px-4 pb-4 text-sm font-normal\">See for yourself \u2014 The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">China\u2019s navy is already the world\u2019s largest, and its shipbuilding capacity, estimated to be 230 times larger, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/navy-frigate-shipyard-workforce-retention-318c99f2161c4284e5ddcf0c1fa2b353\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:dwarfs that of the U.S;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">dwarfs that of the U.S<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the ranking Democratic member of the committee, told Fox News last week that \u201cfor every one oceangoing vessel that we can produce, China can produce 359 in one single year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The U.S. government has come to see China as its \u201cpacing challenge,&#8221; and officials have warned that Beijing is pursuing the largest peacetime military buildup in history, raising concerns about how the U.S. would respond and ensure victory in case of a conflict in the Indo-Pacific, where tensions are high in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/marshall-islands-taiwan-military-and-defense-taiwan-government-international-agreements-98aa76371c2e46979d9bf1c6c4b9981b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the Taiwan Strait;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the Taiwan Strait<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-philippines-disputed-scarborough-shoal-south-china-sea-77e94f6acc69153bd7a9acc187027f9e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the South China Sea;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the South China Sea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Krishnamoorthi on Thursday warned that a weak military industrial base could invite aggression and argued that strengthening it is necessary to avoid war with China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cHistory tells us we need a healthy defense industrial base now to deter aggression and make sure the world\u2019s dictators think again before dragging the U.S. and the world into yet another disastrous conflict,\u201d Krishnamoorthi said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">National security adviser Jake Sullivan called it a \u201cgenerational project\u201d to fix the problem after the American shipbuilding industry had its \u201cbottom fell out\u201d in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cPart of it is we don&#8217;t have the backbone of a healthy commercial shipbuilding base to rest our naval shipbuilding on top of,\u201d Sullivan said Wednesday at the Aspen Security Forum in Washington. \u201cAnd that&#8217;s part of the fragility of what we&#8217;re contending with and why this is going to be such a generational project to fix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The challenge in shipbuilding has been \u201cespecially immense,\u201d stemming from the hollowing-out of the U.S. manufacturing base where its workforce shrank and suppliers left, Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">And it is part of the broader problem of a weakened U.S. military industrial base, as manifested in the weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, Sullivan said, when Kyiv in eight weeks \u201cburned through a year&#8217;s worth of U.S. 155-millimeter artillery production.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cDecades of underinvestments and consolidation had seriously eroded our defense industrial base, and there was no way around it,\u201d Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Adm. Samuel Paparo, warned last month that the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East were eating away at critical U.S. weapons stockpiles and could <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/army-israel-thaad-air-defense-strains-e49a65aaaf3a4ff051b54eebb869f241\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:hamper the military\u2019s ability to respond;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">hamper the military\u2019s ability to respond<\/a> to China should a conflict arise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">He said providing or selling billions of dollars worth of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-military-weapons-nuclear-42d5d374faf445b811c6abe422da05eb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:air defenses to both Ukraine;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">air defenses to both Ukraine<\/a> and Israel were hampering U.S. ability to respond to threats in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cIt\u2019s now eating into stocks, and to say otherwise would be dishonest,\u201d he told an audience at the Brookings Institution in Washington on Nov . 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Several researchers at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies said China\u2019s rapid military buildup could allow the country to prevail over the U.S., especially in case of a prolonged conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cChina\u2019s massive shipbuilding industry would provide a strategic advantage in a war that stretches beyond a few weeks, allowing it to repair damaged vessels or construct replacements much faster than the United States,\u201d the researchers wrote in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">On Thursday, the congressional panel heard suggestions from experts who said it would take time to rebuild the defense industrial base, but for quicker fixes, the U.S. could innovate to make low-cost and autonomous systems and tap resources of its allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cWe need to look at co-production of whether it&#8217;s munitions in Australia or shipbuilding in Korea,\u201d said William Greenwalt, a non-resident senior fellow at the Washington-based think tank American Enterprise Institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">\u201cWe need to get numbers as fast as we can,&#8221; 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