Photo: China Haijian 50” vessel, a new flag vesselChina's Great White Fleet - Will China's Secret Fleet Soon Outnumber The US Navy?-- Forbes
The New Great White Fleet – Will China’s fleet of secret surveillance ships soon outnumber the US Navy?
It has been over three years since China made the drastic, but failed, attempt of ordering the U.S. Navy ocean surveillance ship, USNS Impeccable, to leave the South China sea. The order ratcheted tensions between the US and China but resulted in little more than political volleys being thrown between the two countries. China has not given up however on claiming almost the entire body of water as their own, demarcating their claims within what is known as the nine-dotted line. A line which overlaps the borders of virtually every other country in the region.
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My Comment: China's goal is to be number one in certain areas .... it looks like the NAVY is going to be one of those "things".
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