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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\u2019s ability to develop and produce weapons<\/a> and other defense supplies to fend off war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\n\n

\u201cBold policy changes and significant resources are now needed to restore deterrence and prevent a fight\u201d with China, Moolenaar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s navy is already the world\u2019s largest, and its shipbuilding capacity, estimated to be 230 times larger, dwarfs that of the U.S<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. government has come to see China as its \u201cpacing challenge,\u201d 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 the Taiwan Strait<\/a> and the South China Sea<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\n\n

\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\n\n\n

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\n\n\n

\u201cPart of it is we don’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’s part of the fragility of what we’re contending with and why this is going to be such a generational project to fix.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\n\n

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’s worth of U.S. 155-millimeter artillery production.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDecades of underinvestments and consolidation had seriously eroded our defense industrial base, and there was no way around it,\u201d Sullivan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 hamper the military\u2019s ability to respond<\/a> to China should a conflict arise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said providing or selling billions of dollars worth of air defenses to both Ukraine<\/a> and Israel<\/a> were hampering U.S. ability to respond to threats in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\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\n\n\n

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\n\n\n

\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\n\n\n

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\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to look at co-production of whether it\u2019s munitions in Australia or shipbuilding in Korea,\u201d said William Greenwalt, a nonresident senior fellow at the Washington-based think tank American Enterprise Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to get numbers as fast as we can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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