China is increasing its Antarctic footprint according to new satellite imagery collected by a Washington-based think tank that shows construction has resumed for the first time since 2018 on the country’s fifth station in the southern polar region.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told U.S. lawmakers this week that China’s rapid build up of nuclear weapons was the most “disturbing” thing that he’s ever seen in his 50-year career in the defense industry.
“The Chinese shipyards have been launching at about a rate of five to one over the last decade. So for every warship we put in the water, they put five, and they have a much bigger shipbuilding capacity than we do, we have allowed ours to wither. And the Chinese have built theirs up just at a breathtaking speed,” Newsham told the “China in Focus” on NTD, on March 4.
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