First on Fox: China’s Dominance About the US in terms of shipbuilding is the sending of alarms via Capitol Hill, suggests the upcoming legislation.
A dual group of military veterans who now serve in the House of Representatives of the Homeland Security Committee Mark Green, R-tenn., Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-VA., And Rep. Don Davis, DN.C. – rolls out a bill that is aimed at revitalizing the flawing American commercial ship sector.
“This is not an exercise. A fundamental pillar of America’s safety, our navy supremation, is threatened by communist China,” Green told Fox News Digital.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is chairman of a huge army, including their navy. (AP/China Pla)
Green said that China’s navy was now the largest in the world the US With 350 estimated naval vessels, compared to 280.
“China used his fleet to roll out freedom of navigation, bothering civilian ships and intimidating our allies,” he said. “To maintain our strategic lead, we must invest ‘full speed forward’ in our maritime industrial basis – which include commercial shipbuilders, military shipyards and every link in the supply chain.”
The bill would draw up a National Commission on the maritime industrial basis and the obligatory to start a probe to the status of the American maritime industry, both militarily and commercially.
The aim would be to develop policy and legislative recommendations to breathe new life into American shipyards.
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House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green leads the bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)
Kiggans said that shipbuilding was the “backbone” of the economy of its Coastal Virginia District in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“Due to personnel and supply chain problems, our maritime industrial basis is struggling to keep pace with the growing global threats. This committee is a crucial step in the direction of identifying the challenges that our shipyards are confronted with and strengthen our ability to build and support a fleet of world class.
Davis said: “We must work together to ensure that both the public and private sectors work together to find solutions that will strengthen our maritime industrial basis. Shipbuilding is vital for our national security.”
American competition with China has remained until the Most dual problems In the congress, even with the current Hyperpartian environment.
According to the US Naval Institute, China has almost 47% of the worldwide market in shipbuilding.
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South Korea and Japan are second and third, with approximately 29% and 17% of the market respectively. The US has 0.13% of the market.
A single Chinese shipbuilder achieved more output by Tonnage in 2024 than the US as a whole since the Second World War, according to a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which said that China’s dominance in the sector was a national security risk.
