China’s shipbuilding dominance a national security risk for US: Report

[rangerrebew]

China’s shipbuilding dominance a national security risk for US: Report
By Didi Tang, The Associated Press
 Tuesday, Mar 11, 2025
 

Workers construct the hull of a vessel at the STX shipbuilding plant on Changxing Island in northeast China's Liaoning province in 2011. (Andy Wong/AP)
In only two decades, China has grown to be the dominant player in shipbuilding, claiming more than half of the world’s commercial shipbuilding market, while the U.S. share has fallen to just 0.1%, posing serious economic and national security challenges for the U.S. and its allies, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

In 2024 alone, one Chinese shipbuilder constructed more commercial vessels by tonnage than the entire U.S. shipbuilding industry has built since the end of World War II. China already has the world’s largest naval fleet, the Washington-based bipartisan think tank said in its 75-page report.


“The erosion of U.S. and allied shipbuilding capabilities poses an urgent threat to military readiness, reduces economic opportunities, and contributes to China’s global power-projection ambitions,” the report said.

https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2025/03/11/chinas-shipbuilding-dominance-a-national-security-risk-for-us-report/

[GtHawk]

Are they using their ‘quality’ steel and construction practices to build these ships, if so…….

[Smokin Joe]

Are they using their ‘quality’ steel and construction practices to build these ships, if so…….

Never judge how the locals eat/drink/wear/use by what they sell the 'tourists'.  The very best will not go far, but be reserved for their own.  Export goods are only good enough to fill markets or to provide just enough quality to exclude other sources. What they build for themselves will be the best they can produce, and any failures just points on the learning curve.

[GtHawk]

Never judge how the locals eat/drink/wear/use by what they sell the 'tourists'.  The very best will not go far, but be reserved for their own.  Export goods are only good enough to fill markets or to provide just enough quality to exclude other sources. What they build for themselves will be the best they can produce, and any failures just points on the learning curve.

I was going by the Chinese building practices in China and what I have seen of them on YouTube.

[Smokin Joe]

I was going by the Chinese building practices in China and what I have seen of them on YouTube.

Peasant housing means little and nets little money for the Party. Trade (container ships) means a lot, and fuels the rest.