You know, we, the end of Second World War, we were building about half the ships in the world, which is about what the Chinese build today. Now We build less than 5% [of the world's ships]... they're mostly our warships. but we don't have the capacity in construction to build what we used to. We're literally working closely with the Koreans and the Japanese, who do actually have very substantial yards, both in terms of doing more repair work over there. (02:01–02:07)
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Asserts that the U.S. builds less than 5% of the world's ships, primarily warships.
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