A new Newsweek map shows how the Chinese navy completed a circumnavigation of Australia, a key United States ally in the South Pacific Ocean, in about a month. The Chinese military did not immediately ...

The Chinese navy was operating within Australia's 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone off its southwest coast.

By contrast, Newsweek's map shows that the U.S. Navy once commanded over a dozen public shipyards, many of which were vital to the American war effort in World War II. In the preceding decades ...