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US panel: China navy power growing in the Pacific

By Matthew Pennington
Published November 20, 2013 5:52pm ET
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US panel: China navy power growing in the Pacific
In this photo taken on Sept. 3, 2013 and released by the Chinese Navy on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, sailors line up on a Chinese nuclear submarine at the Qingdao submarine base in east China's Shandong province. (AP File) | AP

A congressional advisory panel sounded a warning Wednesday about China’s military buildup, predicting Beijing could possess the largest fleet of modern submarine and combatant ships in the western Pacific by 2020.

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