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Ship Wars: Confronting China's Dual-Use Shipbuilding Empire
- throw0101d 2y agoTL; DR: > China’s shipbuilding sector has undergone a striking metamorphosis. Twenty years ago, the country was a peripheral player in the global shipyard business. Today, it dominates the industry. At the heart of this transformation is the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), the world’s biggest shipbuilding group. The firm built more commercial vessels by tonnage in 2024 than the entire U.S. shipbuilding industry has built since the end of World War II.
- suraci 2y agothanks to csis for bringing us this information, showing how much of a threat china is to the free world and how the free world needs to act to defend itself