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The US is upset that China is building ships too fast (www.reuters.com)

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[–] Pathfinder@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Radhika Desai brought up a great point regarding this on the latest Geopolitical Economy podcast: civilian shipbuilding and military shipbuilding are complementary industries. China has both, the US only has one (military). Having both allows greater innovation and technological development as people and resources can move between both. What you may learn in civilian shipbuilding will have applications in military shipbuilding (or in more Marxist terms, practice helps build knowledge and understanding). If you only having military shipbuilding capabilities, in time you may very well lag behind other nations that have both (certain when you’re talking about the scale that China is at).

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago

civilian shipbuilding and military shipbuilding are complementary industries. China has both, the US only has one (military)

And even their military shipbuilding industry is decaying, showing that indeed you need both.

Having both allows greater innovation and technological development as people and resources can move between both. What you may learn in civilian shipbuilding will have applications in military shipbuilding

It's probably a significant factor that recently US Navy is eating the constant stream of L's