U.S. and Japan Plot Dual-Use Ships as China Fires Warning Shots Against Confrontation

"Plans for joint building of commercial ships with military applications were announced by

U.S. Navy Secretary John Phelan, Nikkei Asia reports.
Phelan admitted that China's ability to convert commercial ships to military use "seems to be very quick," which he said is currently not the case with Japan and the U.S.
New U.S. ambassador to Japan, George Glass, earlier urged the U.S. and Japan to cooperate more on defense in the face of what he described as an increasingly "confrontational" China, who dismissed the comments as a diplomatic slur." Sputnik