copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades." (Nikki Haley, 2023-11-28)
Evidence (2023-11-28): Haley’s campaign did not respond to an inquiry for this article. The Pentagon’s 2023 China Military Power Report said China’s navy had about 370 warships. The fleet is expected to grow to 395 ships by 2025 and 435 ships by 2030. [...] China is surely gaining ground on the U.S., both in ship counts and overall tonnage — the combined weight of all ships, which helps quantify how many assets a navy has. When Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, compared the two countries’ ship tonnage a decade ago, the U.S. had a roughly 3-1 edge. Now, he said, it’s closer to a 2-1 margin. [...] Haley said China "had the largest naval fleet in the world.
Claim: China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades." (Nikki Haley, 2023-11-28)
Evidence (2019-03-10): The higher budget cost was a major stumbling block, so the Navy proposed extending ship service lives. That greatly increased ship count starting in the late 2020s, reaching 355 ships by FY 2032. The 2020 plan adopts the FY 2019 extended service life plan, reaching a total of 355 ships in FY 2034 (though not of the exact distribution in the 355-ship FSA) and capping fleet size at that level. The FY 2020 plan is lower in the near term because of decisions this year to retire MCMs and cruisers (discussed later).16 [...] All of this carefully planned and deeply analyzed 355-ship fleet may soon be tossed out the window (or porthole). As noted earlier, all the services, the Navy included, have been criticized for not moving fast enough to align budgets and procurement plans with the national defense strategy. The Navy’s concept of operations for great power conflicts is called "distributed operations," that is, having a large number of shooters with long-range munitions that would be dispersed around the battle area. However, the relatively small number of highly-capable but expensive ships in the Navy’s current fleet does not fit well with this concept, a disconnect that has been evident for several years. [...] 12Sydney Freedberg, "Keep Ships Longer To Boost Fleet Size: 355 Ships By 2035," Breaking Defense, June 20, 2018, https://breakingde- fense.com/2018/06/keep-ships-longer-to-boost-fleet-size-355-ships-by-2035/.
Claim: China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades." (Nikki Haley, 2023-11-28)
Evidence (2019-02-21): China is perfecting its anti-access/area-denial capabilities while also establishing a more robust fleet aimed at blue-water operations. China remains active in counterpiracy operations off the coast of Africa and is enhancing its ability to project power farther into the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Chinese submarines, warships, and aircraft are operating far from their home waters more frequently, and in 2014 a Chinese Song-class submarine made a foreign port call for the first time ever, stopping in Sri Lanka while a Chinese destroyer and frigate helped strengthen ties with Iran during a visit to Bandar Abbas. This past summer several modern PLAN warships attended the RIMPAC naval exercises hosted by the United States, as a non-participating Chinese intelligence-collection ship also watched and monitored the exercises from afar. Chinese naval and military technology is closing the gap with Western capabilities, as its scientists work to copy and design advanced systems that are entering service on board increasingly capable warships. Space surveillance is also expanding with the launch of new satellites thought to have an ocean-surveillance capability. [...] China’s amphibious fleet has not been left behind in the buildup, and a fourth Type 071 amphibious-assault ship is thought to be under construction while a new class of large-deck helicopter-carrying amphibious-assault ship, dubbed the Type 081, is thought to be planned for the future.
Claim: China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades." (Nikki Haley, 2023-11-28)
Evidence (2018-07-30): Eric Sayers, who previously served as a special assistant to the Commander at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and is now an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said this year’s SINKEX was important for several reasons, and showed significant growth in Pacific theater capabilities in recent years. [...] Sayers added that, in sum, the two SINKEX events at RIMPAC showed a "multi-axis strike capability" the U.S. is developing and could field in a few years. He noted it was just earlier this decade, when Adm. Robert Willard led PACOM from 2009 to 2012, that PACOM "was sending urgent operational needs statements back to Washington for an anti-ship weapon." "Today, this SINKEX is showing the Congress, our allies, and the Chinese that we have air, ground, surface, and undersea options for the anti-ship mission. We aren’t there yet, but we are slowly moving in the right direction," Sayers said.
Claim: China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades." (Nikki Haley, 2023-11-28)
Evidence (2024-01-24): The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) stated ambitions and coercive policies challenge our interests, security and values. The PRC employs a broad range of political, economic and military tools to increase its global footprint and project power, while remaining opaque about its strategy, intentions and military build-up. The PRC’s malicious hybrid and cyber operations and its confrontational rhetoric and disinformation target Allies and harm Alliance security. The PRC seeks to control key technological and industrial sectors, critical infrastructure, and strategic materials and supply chains. It uses its economic leverage to create strategic dependencies and enhance its influence. It strives to subvert the rules-based international order, including in the space, cyber and maritime domains. The deepening strategic partnership between the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation and their mutually reinforcing attempts to undercut the rules-based international order run counter to our values and interests.116 [...] [370] Integrated Review Refresh 2023: Responding to a More Contested and Volatile World, p. 7. [...] [396] U.K. Ministry of Defence, The Defence Equipment Plan 2022–2023, p. 30.
Claim: China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades." (Nikki Haley, 2023-11-28)
Evidence (2024-07-05): Firebird and Mir like this post [...] MMBR likes this post [...] Hole likes this post
Claim: China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades." (Nikki Haley, 2023-11-28)
Evidence (2015-01-01): Robert Soofer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for [...] Appendix on page 54.] [...] Appendix on page 83.]
Claim: China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades." (Nikki Haley, 2023-11-28)
Evidence (2024-09-19): The hostile, contentious meeting lasted for three[58] to six hours.[61] [...] : CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae Brannon, Robert (13 April 2009). Russian Civil-Military Relations. Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishers. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-7546-7591-4. Archived from the original on 8 May 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2015. [...] - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Barany, Zoltan (2007). Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-4008-2804-3. Archived from the original on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
Claim: China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades." (Nikki Haley, 2023-11-28)
Evidence (2023-11-22): Members present: Robert Courts (Chair); Sarah Atherton; Martin Docherty-Hughes; Richard Drax; Mr Mark Francois; Mr Kevan Jones; Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck; Gavin Robinson; John Spellar; Derek Twigg. [...] James Heappey: I don’t want to repeat— [...] Chair: Let us go back to the transcript and compare. Minister, perhaps you can look at it as well. If it needs clarifying, then we will do that.
Claim: China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades." (Nikki Haley, 2023-11-28)
Evidence (2023-12-13): Chris Christie stated on December 13, 2023 in a town hall in Londonderry, New Hampshire: Under the Trump administration's trade deal, "China's only fulfilled one-third of the promises of agricultural products that they were supposed to buy from our farmers." Nikki Haley stated on November 28, 2023 in an event in Derry, N.H.: China "had the largest naval fleet in the world. Ron DeSantis stated on October 24, 2023 in a town hall in New Hampshire: "The Republicans and Trump funded $400 million in March of 2020 for mail ballots." Donald Trump stated on October 23, 2023 in remarks at a rally in Derry, N.H.: "When I came into office, Iran had $70 billion in foreign exchange reserves. … By the time I left, they had nothing. They were broke." Vivek Ramaswamy stated on October 18, 2023 in a press gaggle in New Hampshire: "Russia has hypersonic missile capabilities ahead of that of the U.S." Chris Sununu stated on June 26, 2018 in an interview: "Every time they’ve done those border patrols, they’ve taken out people who have trafficked drugs. [...] Nikki Haley stated on November 28, 2023 in an event in Derry, N.H.: China "had the largest naval fleet in the world.
Claim: China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades." (Nikki Haley, 2023-11-28)
Evidence (2001-11-01): General Order No. 370 (1889) Copies of Books to the Navy Department Library [...] Chapter 12: Two More Years [...] Yangtze River Patrol and Other US Navy Asiatic Fleet Activities in China
Claim: China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades." (Nikki Haley, 2023-11-28)
Evidence (2020-11-17): – "Shipbuilding: The PRC has the largest navy in the world, with an overall battle force of approximately 350 ships and submarines including over 130 major surface combatants. In comparison, the U.S. Navy’s battle force is approximately 293 ships as of early 2020. [...] Thanks to impressive shipbuilding, one of three areas of advantage for China emphasized upfront in the report, China has the world’s largest navy numerically at 350 ships. This is already at least four dozen more than the U.S. Navy, even if the equivalent figure of 293 that the report cites is replaced with the service’s current official figure of closer to 300 total deployable battle force ships. Moreover, the PLA Navy (PLAN) is not simply running up the numbers with flotillas of small craft: its total of 350 warships includes "more than 130 major surface combatants" (44). [...] China’s shipbuilding industry has already produced a fleet of several hundred (currently in the low-300s; 303 per the Pentagon’s 2016 report)[48] increasingly-advanced warships capable of "flooding the zone" along the contested East Asian littoral. When several hundred ships each from China’s Coast Guard and its most advanced Maritime Militia units are factored in, Beijing’s numerical preponderance for the "home game" scenarios it prioritizes becomes formidable indeed.
Claim: China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades." (Nikki Haley, 2023-11-28)
Evidence (2024-08-16): China’s navy is, by far, the largest of any country in East Asia, and sometime between 2015 and 2020 it surpassed the U.S. Navy in numbers of battle force ships, meaning the types of ships that count toward the quoted size of the U.S. Navy. DOD states that China’s navy "is the largest navy in the world with a battle force of over 370 platforms, including major surface combatants, submarines, ocean-going amphibious ships, mine warfare ships, aircraft carriers, and fleet auxiliaries. Notably, this figure does not include approximately 60 HOUBEI-class patrol combatants that carry anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCM). The… overall battle force [of China’s navy] is expected to grow to 395 ships by 2025 and 435 ships by 2030." The U.S. Navy, by comparison, included 296 battle force ships as of August 12, 2024, and the Navy’s FY2025 budget submission projects that the Navy will include 294 battle force ships by the end of FY2030.
Claim: China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades." (Nikki Haley, 2023-11-28)
Evidence (2024-06-25): And then you look at the fact we’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars combined. 75,000 Americans last year alone. There are Chinese police stations throughout our country. There’s a Chinese spy base that’s going off our shores in Cuba, and China’s now building up their military at a scary pace. They have 500 nuclear warheads. That’s a hundred more than they had last year. We won’t even have 350 ships in two decades. They’re doing artificial intelligence, they’re doing space, they’re doing cyber. They’ve developed hypersonic missiles. We’ve barely gotten started. And now China’s the lead developer on neuro-strike weapons, weapons engineered to change the brain activity of military commanders and segments of the population. That’s who we’re dealing with. So when Biden tells you that China’s a competitor, I’ve dealt with China every single day at the United Nations. They never saw us as a competitor. They always saw us as an enemy. We’ve got to start looking at them the way they look at us.
Claim: "The Postal Service is not losing money because of Amazon. It’s losing money because in 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed a law forcing it to prepay its pensions for 75 years, which no other corporation does ... Without this law, the Postal Service would be turning a profit.” (AFL-CIO, 2020-04-13)
Evidence (2020-04-13): The Postal Service has experienced years of financial troubles. Last-mile delivery services it provides for Amazon are not the cause of those problems. The 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act required the Postal Service to pre-fund future retiree health benefits, not pensions. The law put a financial strain on the service, which has defaulted on some of the statutorily prescribed payments. The Postal Service has more financial problems than just the requirements of that law.
Claim: "The Postal Service is not losing money because of Amazon. It’s losing money because in 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed a law forcing it to prepay its pensions for 75 years, which no other corporation does ... Without this law, the Postal Service would be turning a profit.” (AFL-CIO, 2020-04-13)
Evidence (2020-10-06): A 2006 law makes the USPS’ problems worse Despite these unique requirements, the USPS continued to net positive cash flows, and was actually profitable until 2006 – at which point Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act during a lame-duck session. Under this law, the USPS was required to pre-fund 75 years worth of retiree health care benefits in the span of roughly 10 years.
Claim: "The Postal Service is not losing money because of Amazon. It’s losing money because in 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed a law forcing it to prepay its pensions for 75 years, which no other corporation does ... Without this law, the Postal Service would be turning a profit.” (AFL-CIO, 2020-04-13)
Evidence (2023-11-28): The US Postal Service has been delivering Amazon packages for years, but this month's protest reportedly came in response to local implementation of a new agreement with Amazon at the beginning of November. The Bemidji Pioneer quoted longtime mail carrier Dennis Nelson as saying, "We're being forced to work 12-hour days, six days a week. All of our days off have been canceled by the district manager. They've even gone so far as to say they will not honor sick leave. On top of that, we've been told Amazon is now our priority, that Amazon packages are the most important thing we do, the mail is secondary." [...] When contacted by Ars today, a USPS spokesperson denied that the agency prioritizes Amazon packages. "We do not prioritize Amazon packages. We deliver packages and mail in an integrated network," the spokesperson wrote in an email.
Claim: "The Postal Service is not losing money because of Amazon. It’s losing money because in 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed a law forcing it to prepay its pensions for 75 years, which no other corporation does ... Without this law, the Postal Service would be turning a profit.” (AFL-CIO, 2020-04-13)
Evidence (2020-08-22): The biggest drag on its finances is a unique rule that requires the USPS to prepay for workers’ retirement benefits for decades into the future. In 2006, Congress passed a law to require the the agency to pre-fund 75 years worth of retiree health care benefits in the span of about 10 years. [...] The rule took effect in 2007, just before the start of the Great Recession, when the Postal Service was still reporting profits. But the economic downturn hit hard and made the payments unaffordable. It’s true that no other unit of government or private company that provides retiree health care coverage has to make such pre-funding payments. And in recent years, the USPS has not made the required payment, citing a lack of available cash.
Claim: "The Postal Service is not losing money because of Amazon. It’s losing money because in 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed a law forcing it to prepay its pensions for 75 years, which no other corporation does ... Without this law, the Postal Service would be turning a profit.” (AFL-CIO, 2020-04-13)
Evidence (2021-09-23): The U.S. Postal Service touches virtually every U.S. household and business and is critical to the national economy. However, it has lost over 87 billion in recent years due to declining mail volumes and rising costs. The U.S. Postal Service has taken some steps to address its financial challenges, but legal requirements limit its ability to change certain service offerings, pricing, and employee compensation or benefits. Congress should consider reassessing what postal services the nation needs, how those services should be funded, and more.
Claim: "The Postal Service is not losing money because of Amazon. It’s losing money because in 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed a law forcing it to prepay its pensions for 75 years, which no other corporation does ... Without this law, the Postal Service would be turning a profit.” (AFL-CIO, 2020-04-13)
Evidence (2018-04-03): In another tweet on Tuesday, Trump again claimed the postal service is losing "massive amounts of money." [...] TRUMP: ‘‘Only fools, or worse, are saying that our money losing Post Office makes money with Amazon. THEY LOSE A FORTUNE, and this will be changed. Also, our fully tax paying retailers are closing stores all over the country...not a level playing field!’’ — tweet Monday. [...] As for the post office, package delivery has been a bright spot for a service that’s lost money for 11 straight years. The losses are mostly due to pension and health care costs — not the business deal for the Postal Service to deliver packages for Amazon. Boosted by e-commerce, the Postal Service has enjoyed double-digit increases in revenue from delivering packages, but that hasn’t been enough to offset declines in first-class letters and marketing mail, which together make up more than two-thirds of postal revenue.
Claim: "The Postal Service is not losing money because of Amazon. It’s losing money because in 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed a law forcing it to prepay its pensions for 75 years, which no other corporation does ... Without this law, the Postal Service would be turning a profit.” (AFL-CIO, 2020-04-13)
Evidence (2021-12-09): But the government agency continues to struggle to compete in a delivery marketplace increasingly dominated by Amazon. It reported a net loss of $4.9 billion for its fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, compared to a $9.2 billion loss in the prior year. [...] But Gorman emphasized that when compared to Amazon, the logistics of the Post Office are fundamentally different. [...] Despite seeing revenue growth in its shipping services this year, the Postal Service is still trying to rebuild the trust it lost last year, after thousands of packages were delayed because of surging volumes and a lack of preparedness.
Claim: "The Postal Service is not losing money because of Amazon. It’s losing money because in 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed a law forcing it to prepay its pensions for 75 years, which no other corporation does ... Without this law, the Postal Service would be turning a profit.” (AFL-CIO, 2020-04-13)
Evidence (2021-10-08): The Postal Service did not make anyone available for an interview for this story, but in a video on its website, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy defended the cutback, part of the Postal Service's Delivering for America plan, as necessary: [...] The Postal Service lost $9.2 billion in fiscal 2020. [...] One thing that would help, Yoder says, is for Congress to pass the Postal Service Reform Act, legislation that would eliminate the requirement the Postal Service prepay its retirees' health benefits, which would save the agency an estimated $46 billion over 10 years. The measure has bipartisan support but has not been approved by either chamber.
Claim: "The Postal Service is not losing money because of Amazon. It’s losing money because in 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed a law forcing it to prepay its pensions for 75 years, which no other corporation does ... Without this law, the Postal Service would be turning a profit.” (AFL-CIO, 2020-04-13)
Evidence (2018-04-04): Of course, we still haven’t exactly answered the larger accounting question, whether the Postal Service is making or losing money on the Amazon contract. Using short-term incremental accounting — incremental revenue minus incremental costs — the Amazon contract certainly looks profitable. But any enterprise that uses only short-term incremental accounting to price its products would, over the long run, probably find itself out of business. That’s because incremental cost accounting ignores the common costs (or what the Postal Service calls "institutional" costs) that can’t easily be attributed to any one customer or any one line of business — regular first-class "letter" mail, for example, or second-class newspapers and magazines, or third-class catalogues.