The U.S. Navy, once unrivaled in size and power, now finds itself behind China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) in terms of fleet size. Although some argue China inflates its numbers by including civilian vessels designed for military use,

In 2015, a Chinese Kilo-class submarine (built by Russia)  tracked the USS Ronald Reagan for half a day in the waters near Japan, highlighting rising tensions between the U.S. and China in the Indo-Pacific.

China said on Thursday its Liaoning aircraft carrier had been on a routine training mission in the western Pacific and dismissed charges by Tokyo that the vessel and its escorts had entered Japanese waters.

A Chinese aircraft carrier entered Japan’s contiguous waters for the first time on Wednesday, leading Tokyo to convey its “serious concerns” to Beijing over China’s increasingly assertive military actions around Japan,