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How Des China’s Navy Compare To America’s?<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Every year on April 23, China\u2019s People Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Day commemorates the founding of the service in 1949. This year\u2019s celebrations have special significance, as a chance to display the hardware that will define the country\u2019s future place among the world’s great powers.<\/span><\/p>\n

China is preparing to launch its first domestically produced aircraft carrier, the steam-powered Type 001A, for sea trials. Naval operations are scheduled from April 20-28 in the Bohai and Yellow seas, and Chinese experts believe the Type 001A could be put to sea during that window.<\/span><\/p>\n

China has two particularly pressing strategic concerns in East Asia: the continued independence of Taiwan, and the dispute over territorial claims in the South China Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beijing is looking to ensure its domination of the region and therefore must have a military capable of standing up to U.S. hegemony. In recent weeks the country made a point of executing huge military drills to signify its determination to protect and advance its national interests.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Global Times, The Chinese Ministry of Defense released footage on social media and official websites that detailed China’s nuclear submarines and amphibious landing military exercises, among other achievements.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Chinese know from history [that] major powers must have a strong navy, and they are moving quickly in that direction,\u201d said retired Rear Admiral Terence Edward McKnight, who commanded a multinational anti-piracy task force in the Gulf of Aden.<\/span><\/p>\n

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China now fields one of the world’s largest and most technologically advanced navies. Its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, was introduced in 2012, having been purchased from Ukraine. Adding more carriers and ensuring the ability to produce them domestically are further signs of China\u2019s ambition.<\/span><\/p>\n

The significance of China\u2019s carrier program is practical as well as symbolic, explained Matthew Funaiole, a fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies. China is investing heavily in its navy, \u201cand the Type 001A is a massive push in the right direction,\u201d Funaiole said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to refit an old Soviet carrier, like the Chinese did with the Liaoning. It\u2019s something else entirely to build one from the ground up, even with the help of some reverse engineering,\u201d Funaiole continued.<\/span><\/p>\n

China likely wants to field somewhere between six and 10 carriers, though not all will be top-tier vessels, Funaiole suggested. That would make its navy the second most powerful force in the world by some distance, and belies ambitions beyond the South China Sea and Taiwan. Indeed, Beijing has already established a naval base in Djibouti, Africa, and is working on a network of ports and airfields in the Indian Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cChina has an interest in shoring up its perceived security closer to home,\u201d Funaiole explained. \u201cThat said, it is actively looking to expand its navy for far-seas operations, and it’s well on its way to seeing this goal through to fruition. It will be interesting to watch what types of missions the PLA Navy is tasked with, in the Indian Ocean in particular.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It might be moving in the right direction, but the PLA Navy is still behind America in both technology and operational capability. The U.S. has a long history of carrier production and operations, and fields the most advanced launch systems, power plants and carrier-based aircraft in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

“With China’s fast-growing overseas national interests, the [Chinese] navy’s mission will be more complicated and significant. China now has only one overseas logistics base in Africa, but in the future, the Chinese navy will need more bases around the globe, especially in key regions, to support its overseas mission,” Xu Guangyu, a retired major general of the PLA, told Global Times.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the main reasons for the purchase of the Liaoning was training: A carrier is nothing without its crew. The U.S. has a major personnel and logistical advantage, and China \u201cwill face some hurdles in getting a corps of trained pilots, operators and technicians in place,\u201d Funaiole said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. Navy has roughly 325,000 service members and approximately 282 deployable battle force vessels, including 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. The U.S. Navy also has 3,700 aircraft, the second largest air fleet in the world\u2014only the U.S. Air Force has more. That count does not include around 200 auxiliary and reserve ships.<\/span><\/p>\n

The PLA Navy has around 235,000 personnel and over 700 aircraft. Though it has over 700 vessels in total, the number is bloated by a large number of patrol and support ships as well as outdated boats. Only approximately 220 are combat ships. Beijing hopes to increase that number to 351 by 2020 and is fast retiring outdated vessels.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though the U.S. has the more powerful navy, the gap between the U.S. and China \u201cis getting smaller and smaller each day,\u201d McKnight said. American naval leaders are well aware of this and have set an expansion target of 355 combat ships by the end of the 2050s. But according to McKnight, America simply \u201ccan\u2019t build ships fast enough right now to keep up with the Chinese.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Projecting force is more difficult than fighting close to home. The Chinese \u201cknow they would never win fighting us off the coast of California\u2026but in the South China Sea we will have a major problem fighting the number of Chinese forces,\u201d McKnight explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

It may already be too late to challenge China in its home waters. For all its protests, the U.S. has been unable to stop or slow the construction of artificial islands in the sea, which have effectively fortified China\u2019s disputed claims. \u201cAs our young service members fought hard and died in the Middle East the last decade, China has taken control of the South China Sea without losing one sailor,\u201d McKnight said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Admiral Phil Davidson, a nominee to lead U.S. Pacific Command and current head of the Navy\u2019s Fleet Forces Command on the East Coast, told the Senate Armed Services Committee this week that China \u201cis no longer a rising power but an arrived great power and peer competitor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. is moving to meet the Chinese challenge in Asia-Pacific. Warships and planes have been conducting freedom of navigation operations near China\u2019s artificial island bases; carriers have been deployed to ports in the region; and new weapons have been made available to Pacific ships. America won\u2019t cede influence in East Asia easily.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t want a war with us, but they want to show us they can control their own backyard\u2014the South China Sea\u2014and be recognized as a true maritime power,\u201d McKnight said. \u201cYou need a powerful navy to command the seas.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/how-does-chinas-navy-compare-us-897209<\/span><\/p>\n

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