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You know everybody says well this is a 300 ship Navy and China has outstripped us. 100 of those vessels are Coast Guard vessels. Nobody ever brings that up.
Nobody ever brings up the fact that Chinese really don't like to go to sea. They don't want to be out there. It's not a seafaring nation. They have just started a submarine fleet that is nuclear and nuclear capable. Well, we've been doing that since the 1950s.
It takes decades to build a force like that, to train the people, to organize them and equip them effectively. China has huge problems just holding itself together. So I think we should set China aside and understand that it is not this juggernaut that is led in one particular direction.