Comments on: China’s Growing Navy: Dangerous or Deadly?

By: Pat Frost

Pat Frost — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:35:19 +0000

Good, and very arguable points. But it was not that long ago when the US had a miniscule navy and look at it now. The Chinese have to start some where. Regarding the US navy, it has kept the oceans safe and stable for going on 70 years now, to little international acclaim but that’s the free rider problem, and the US should definitely maintain this as its benefits way outweigh the negatives.

By: micraig

micraig — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:07:08 +0000

I would posit that one carrier does not pose any significant threat to our sea dominance. Carriers are inherently easy targets, especially if you only have to worry about one. I believe that it is prudent for the U.S. to maintain its dominance in sea power ability because, as Lihua pointed out, we are able to pursue global deployment and reach and in a volatile world this represents a deterrence. As you pointed out in an earlier post, piracy is becoming a common practice off of Somalia. Suppose there becomes a need for the U.S. to intervene for the protection of all shipping. It would be nice to have that global deployment ability. In my opinion, China is hardly in a position to compete with the U.S. for sea power. Now economic competition is well within China’s reach, and certainly a cause for concern.

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