U.S. Commander Warns China’s Warship Output Outpaces America’s

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U.S. Indo-Pacific Commander Admiral Samuel Paparo says China is vastly outproducing the United States in military hardware, warning that the imbalance could complicate efforts to defend Taiwan.

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00:00The top U.S. military commander for the Indo-Pacific region says the speed of China's defense production

00:05could make defending against the Taiwan invasion more difficult.

00:09Admiral Samuel Paparo made the comments at a U.S. think tank event.

00:14He said that for every six warships China makes, the U.S. makes only 1.8.

00:19He said that while the U.S. would beat China in a Taiwan Strait conflict today,

00:24every force element is on a bad trajectory.

00:26Paparo also said China's decision whether to invade would be based in part on the will and probability of allied assistance to Taiwan.

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