October 2, 2019
China and America Agree: The U.S. Navy is Too Small
Good news for American critics who warn that the U.S. Navy is overstretched.
by Michael Peck
China agrees with you.
Fang Xiaozhi, a researcher at the BRI Institute of Strategy and International Security, at Fudan University in Shanghai, says that the U.S. Navy has too few ships to meet its worldwide commitments. And more important, it doesn’t have enough vessels to defeat China in the Western Pacific.
“Although it possesses the world’s largest naval force, it has to carry out onerous combat and war preparedness missions on the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and in the Middle East as its interests are spreading all over the world, and the missions are of complicated and diverse types for that matter,†Fang wrote in China Military Online, an official site of the Chinese armed forces.
“For instance, the U.S. 7th Fleet had constant collisions in the past two years due to excessive missions, which exhausted the front-line officers and soldiers and resulted in poor management. Besides, many American vessels have various malfunctions and a high failure rate because of consistent overwork.â€
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/china-and-america-agree-us-navy-too-small-84956
