Oh My God, Not this article again.
Some one had already posted this article by Ross some months ago, the "Chinese have more quantity than US Navy" is BS, notice Ross only counted US Commissioned Ship (with USS prefix), and only counted Active. But not non-commissioned ship or in active reserve. On the Other hand Ross counted EVERY SHIP the PLAN have in their inventory. The disparity existed only in Ross's mind.
First of all, PLAN counted every ship they own as PLAN ship, I mean PLAN does not have an supporting arms, which mean every submarine tender, replenishment ship and even 4000 tons landing craft as PLAN ship, that make up the 350 ship number.
On the other hand, US Navy have a separate Military Sealift Command, which mean all the supporting vessel would have a prefix of USNS, and would not be counted toward US Navy Ship.
For example, this ship would not be counted as US Navy ship, but ship of same type would counted toward PLAN
On the other hand, US Navy Ready Reserve/Inactive Reserve fleet (Or mothball fleet) have around 260 ship that can be deployed into active service within 3 months to 1 years, depending on category. Those ship aren't exactly outdated either, you are talking about 2 Tawara Class LPD, USS Kitty Hawk, and assorted 1980s Frigate and Destroyer.....Those are of equal status of the older service warship within PLAN.
So, if you counted all those, you are looking at US Navy with a force of around 800 ships.