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This is from the Pentagon's own PowerPoint. The problem is that Murica had seriously neglected domestic shipbuilding in the past 40 years. Number of shipyards drastically shrank. It's gotten to a point where maintaining the current fleet is becoming difficult.I think this is probably the real reason. Delays at domestic shipyards is the public justification that's hard to argue against.
https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.ShipBuilding
Murica has 0.13% of global shipbuilding, while China has 46.59%.