Where's the trouble here? This is just a 'did you know' story. If they wanted to stir up trouble they would be better off pointing out that the US industrial m

Where's the trouble here? This is just a 'did you know' story. If they wanted to stir up trouble they would be better off pointing out that the US industrial maritime capacity is actually terrible, and that China and Europe have far more capable equipment than the US does. Thanks to expensive and largely futile wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there has been a chronic under-investment in naval capacity, neglect of the merchant marine and so on.