From The New York Times:
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday that the Pentagon was closely monitoring the growth of China’s navy as part of that country’s overall military buildup.
“It is an issue that the department thinks about and is concerned about and is attentive to,” Mr. Rumsfeld said when asked at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about intelligence projections that the size of the Chinese fleet could surpass that of the United States Navy within a decade.
