China’s Maritime Silk Road: Strategic and Economic . . . - CSIS China unveiled the concept for the Twenty-First Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR) in 2013 as a development strategy to boost infrastructure connectivity throughout Southeast Asia, Oceania, the Indian Ocean, and East Africa The MSR is the maritime complement to the Silk Road Economic Belt, which
The State of Maritime Supply-Chain Threats - CSIS The global maritime supply chains primer from the CSIS Economics Program and Scholl Chair in International Business identifies and assesses current and potential key threats to seaborne trade
How the United States Can Overcome Icebreaker Construction Woes and . . . The United States needs to rapidly recapitalize and increase its fleet of three polar icebreakers to address national security risks in the Arctic Foreign ship construction can rapidly deliver the needed icebreakers as the U S grows its domestic shipbuilding industry
Unpacking the White House’s Executive Order on Restoring the U. S . . . An ambitious new White House executive order seeks to revitalize the U S maritime industry This article unpacks the dynamics driving the push to restore U S shipbuilding and how these measures are tied to competition with China
Pulling Back the Curtain on China’s Maritime Militia - CSIS The CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies present the most comprehensive study to date of the structure, subsidies, and ownership networks of China’s maritime militia in the South China Sea
Maritime Security Dialogue | International Security Program | CSIS The CSIS International Security Program and the U S Naval Institute held a Maritime Security Dialogue event featuring Vice Admiral James E Pitts, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfighting Requirements and Capabilities