China’s navy along with the vast majority on that list follow or followed a Green Water doctrine, meaning most of their ships are tugs, small patrol boats, corvettes, fast attack craft, with the biggest ships usually being destroyers. All of those have very low tonnages so that’s why their numbers are pretty slanted.
Plus North Korea’s navy are mostly WW2 vessels given by the Soviet Union and China.
China’s navy along with the vast majority on that list follow or followed a Green Water doctrine, meaning most of their ships are tugs, small patrol boats, corvettes, fast attack craft, with the biggest ships usually being destroyers. All of those have very low tonnages so that’s why their numbers are pretty slanted.
Plus North Korea’s navy are mostly WW2 vessels given by the Soviet Union and China.