China says it can close trade deficit with U.S. by buying four Ford-class CVNs

People’s Daily, official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, has mocked the United States with a proposal to close the trade deceit between both countries by buying four Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ridge Leoni [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

” If the US sold four Ford-class aircraft carriers priced at $15 billion each, it would easily make up for a $ 60 billion trade deficit with China,” said in an op-ed written by Zhong Xuanli. A pseudonym used by the Central Propaganda Department’s Theory Bureau.

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