(Full report available here: https://www.csis.org/analysis/ship-wars-confronting-chinas-dual-use-shipbuilding-empire)
Report's Key Takeaway Examples:
"China’s lead in the global commercial shipbuilding market is huge and growing. The country’s largest state-owned shipbuilder built more commercial vessels by tonnage in 2024 than the entire U.S. shipbuilding industry has built since the end of World War II."
"Foreign companies, including firms based in many U.S.-allied countries, purchase 75 percent of ships built at China’s dual-use shipyards, funneling billions of dollars in revenue and transferring key technologies into the PRC’s naval industrial base."
"This system has helped the PRC lower the costs of modernizing its navy, while also undercutting global commercial shipbuilding markets and marginalizing U.S. and allied industries."
"Policymakers should enact punitive measures to erode China’s outsized industrial dominance and to disrupt China’s MCF efforts while making longterm investments in U.S. and allied shipbuilding capacity."
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