WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- Senator Todd Young issued the following press release:
China dominates (https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/china) the world's sea lanes.
In addition to its powerful navy, China possesses the world's largest commercial shipping fleet - 5,500 vessels strong, with hundreds more added per year. By contrast, America's fleet currently numbers under 100 with, at most, five ships added per year.
Today, only a fraction of the tankers and cargo ships carrying goods to and from our country fly the American flag - by some estimates, less than 0.4%.
The diminished state of American commercial shipbuilding is a pending economic and national security (https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/executive/national...