Trump responds to Chicom shipping

 Newsmax:

President Donald Trump wants the U.S. to build more ships, “very fast, very soon,” as China's naval shipbuilding capacity is now more than 230 times greater than America's, reports Axios.

Trump is also mulling having a White House shipbuilding office, according to the report.

Trump during his speech to Congress last week said he would “resurrect the American shipbuilding industry.”

"We used it to make so many ships," he said. "We don't make them anymore very much, but we're going to make them very fast, very soon."

Trump's administration aims to pay for an American shipbuilding comeback with help from potentially hefty port fees on Chinese-built vessels as well as ships from fleets with China-made vessels, according to a draft executive order seen by Reuters on Thursday.
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The US has had a strong naval history, beginning with characters like John Paul Jones. I believe Jones was the one who said, "I want nothing but fast ships, for I am going in harm's way."  In recent years the US navy has shrunk and ship building has declined. Trump is right to build more ships.

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