01 January 2020
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- “A Formidable Force”: China’s Rapidly Modernizing PLAN Has More Ships Than US Navy
“A Formidable Force”: China’s Rapidly Modernizing PLAN Has More Ships Than US Navy
China’s People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) commissioned six warships in December, helping the fleet to remain technically larger than the US Navy while expanding its ability to project power and bringing it closer to being able to meet Washington toe-to-toe on the high seas.
Collin Koh, a research fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies think tank at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, told the South China Morning Post that the size of the PLAN has remained relatively stable in recent years, “but the overall quality of the ships has improved, since each new destroyer and frigate inducted into service, for example, is larger and much more capable than the ones being replaced.”
IDSS / Online
