[Ryzorian]

As long as it looks like they aren't competeing no..but as soon as they try to create a "Pacific 7th fleet" they will. Perhaps not with fighting persay but with building, as in the cold war..build more ships than the other side can contend with.

One American supercarrier has as much firepower as was used in all of WW2 combined. I think the US has 11?..If China or someone else tried to Vie for command of the sea you would see 15, 20...whatever was needed.

It's why Britain no longer has the fleet they used to have. Part of the "lend lease" agreement of ww2 was Britain ceeding controle of the Atlantic to the US. The US out right took it from Japan in the same war.

These fleets are partly why the US has such a reach in the world geographically. We can place 500,000 troops in someone else country, from half way around the world.