Jacqueline N. Deal

1 month ago | americanaffairsjournal.org | William Cahill |Jacqueline N. Deal |Julius Krein

China’s rise as a strategic adversary and maritime power has finally triggered much-needed introspection and shaken America out of a multigenerational hibernation. The U.S. maritime industrial base (MIB) faces a Chinese counterpart hundreds of times larger in both shipbuilding capacity and commercial orders. China’s penetration of U.S. ports through Xi Jinping’s “military-civil fusion” strategy—exploiting dual-use technologies such as smart cranes—gives the Chinese MIB an additional edge.