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发布时间：2025-09-11 14:59:36 来源：都市天下脉观察 作者：焦点

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China continues to dominate shipbuilding with latest amphibious assault ship

Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports on the latest ship launched by China and where America stands in the shipbuilding battle on 'Special Report.'

American workers are front and center in the race to stay ahead of China. There just aren’t enough of them. Jobs are going unfilled from advanced semiconductor foundries to the drydocks where the U.S. Navy’s combat ships are built. Ships and chips are both in crisis. 

And no, AI by itself isn’t the answer.  

"We’ve spent the last 10 years teaching people how to code. We need to spend the next 10 years teaching people how to use their hands," Navy Secretary John Phelan said July 16 in Detroit.  

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It's shipfitters, blasters, superconducting process integration managers and semiconductor equipment technicians who will ensure the USA beats China. Both ships and chips rely on touch labor — albeit in very sophisticated factories and foundries.  

Shipbuilding is key to the US Navy's future. FILE: The USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) steams in close formation as one of 42 ships and submarines representing 15 international partner nations during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014. (iStock)

President Donald Trump gets it. "Every policy of the Trump administration is designed to lift up the American worker, promote great-paying, blue-collar jobs and to rebuild the industrial bedrock of our nation," he said Aug. 26.  

Not that you’ll see just blue collars anymore: look for black T-shirts, plaid flannel, white clean room "bunny suits" and engineers in polos. But the essentials are the same. This critical workforce is made up of men and women who’ve built their technical expertise and thrive on getting the job done, whether with a crane or a lithography machine.  

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Here’s the stunning problem. Although both ships and chips sectors are booming with urgent programs and new opportunities, America as a nation has devalued the trades and is paying the price. The manufacturing sector's workforce decline due to decades of globalism has been so sharp that U.S. national security and economic dominance are at risk.  

Just 3% of the American population today work in manufacturing, versus 9% during the Cold War. COVID-19 hit hard. Texas, Florida and Georgia have added enough manufacturing jobs to surge ahead of their pre-pandemic employment levels, but almost half of U.S. states still have lower manufacturing totals than 2019.  

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