We're going to be fighting a war where we're having to project logistics 7, 8, 9,000 miles away through literally over nothing but water into the backyard of a country that China is not Japan. It's a continental power... five times our population, roughly equal to us in economic might, and build ships 232 times faster than we do. So our ability to conduct sea lift is important. And of course, that's, that's not necessarily a Navy capability. That's a merchant marine. That's a sealift capability. (08:05–08:28)
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Asserts China's comparative advantages in population, economic power, and shipbuilding speed.
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