[Levin]

https://splash247.com/china-now-controls...orderbook/

[sgbuffett]

This shows China powess in manufacturing.

However there is something that has to be explained to people that having alot off capacity to build is not always a good thing. Some one has to provide the demand to buy what you build.

The more you produce the more you need others to buy. Without your consumers leveling up to buy what the other countries have to sell the demand cannot be sustained ...and this model cannot work.

Manufacturing js just a means to an end. In the past Jaoan was top producer of ships and cars and that did not help to prevent them from entering lost decade.

Singapore js moving away from shipbuilding becauee yhis type of work ..workers dknt even make enough to feed family we end up hiring foreigners to work af the shipyard.

[Levin]

This shows China powess in manufacturing.

However there is something that has to be explained to people that having alot off capacity to build is not always a good thing. Some one has to provide the demand to buy what you build.

The more you produce the more you need others to buy. Without your consumers leveling up to buy what the other countries have to sell the demand cannot be sustained ...and this model cannot work.

The article is about the orders to build, not the capacity to build. 

I think if there are any worries about 'capacity', it should be the shipping capacity rather than the manufacturing capacity. Are the shippers ordering too much or too little shipping capacity?

[goodboy]

That's why the South China Sea issues are a complete joke.

China could just send an endless stream of merchant navy to kamikaze Philippines and US Navy vessels and it won't even make a dent in China's ship inventory.

They don't even need to send PLAN warships at all.