It may be incumbent upon President Obama to rethink this nation's naval structure.
[from The Detroit News subscriber edition]
This is the next step in China's strategy to wrestle economic and military supremacy from the United States.
The first step, economic supremacy, is a foregone conclusion. The U.S. government and corporations have been complicit, in the name of free trade, to allow Chinese mercantilism to undermine U.S. manufacturers and markets bringing trillions of dollars to the Chinese economy and creating unemployment, closing businesses, and ever-increasing national debt to the United States.
The second step was discussed here with this conclusion.
It is more than the U.S. naval power that is threatened. Our present economic situation is the first symptom of this long-term shift of power.