WASHINGTON -- Struggling to keep up with China's naval shipbuilding spree, the U.S. is looking to reopen closed or inactive American shipyards with the help of Asian capital, engineers and shipbuilding expertise.
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The 1,000-ton deckhouse of a destroyer at General Dynamics' Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. The company is one of seven shipbuilders to construct naval ships in the U.S. today. (U.S. Navy photo)
WASHINGTON -- Struggling to keep up with China's naval shipbuilding spree, the U.S. is looking to reopen closed or inactive American shipyards with the help of Asian capital, engineers and shipbuilding expertise.