Biden Requests $7.4 Billion to Counter China, Build Attack Submarines

The Biden administration’s new spending request includes billions to enhance the nation’s submarine capabilities and counter China in the Indo-Pacific.
Biden Requests $7.4 Billion to Counter China, Build Attack Submarines
The Virginia-class attack submarine Pre-commissioning Unit (PCU) John Warner (SSN 785) is moved to Newport News Shipbuilding's floating dry dock in preparation for the September 6 christening in Newport News, Virginia, U.S. August 31, 2014. U.S. Navy/John Whalen/Huntington Ingalls Industries/Handout via REUTERS
Andrew Thornebrooke
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The Biden administration’s new supplemental funding request includes billions of dollars to counter the malign influence of communist China throughout the world and to strengthen the United States’ naval forces.

Of the mammoth $106 billion request, the administration is seeking $4 billion to provide military training to regional partners in the Indo-Pacific and provide long-term financing options abroad as an alternative to China’s predatory lending schemes.
Andrew Thornebrooke
Andrew Thornebrooke
National Security Correspondent
Andrew Thornebrooke is a national security correspondent for The Epoch Times covering China-related issues with a focus on defense, military affairs, and national security. He holds a master's in military history from Norwich University.
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