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DoD Report Finds China Ahead Of U.S. In Ships Numbers

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DoD Report Finds China Ahead Of U.S. In Ships Numbers
Major Naval Units of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), from the Annual Report to Congress on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China, September 2020. (Image: Defense Department).

An annual Pentagon report on China’s military developments finds it is already outpacing the U.S. in a few areas, including total Navy ship numbers. The report, “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China, 2020” underscored the Chinese government’s objective for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is for it to become a “world-class” military by 2049, which the U.S. interprets as likely meaning equal to or serious to the U.S. or any other great power Chinese views as…

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