However, the fact of the matter remains that as part and parcel of the global shift in maritime power, we can see that the navies upon which we have traditionally depended — and upon which the Royal Canadian Navy has depended and alongside which it has worked — have declined dramatically in size. Indeed, not so long ago, The Economist newspaper in the United Kingdom published a graph that showed the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy surpassing the United States Navy in overall size.
En effet, il n'y a pas tellement longtemps, la revue britannique The Economist a publié un graphique qui montrait que l'importance de la marine de l'Armée Populaire Chinoise de Libération surpassait globalement celle de la USN.