U.S. Shipbuilding Crisis: America Lags Behind China as Korea Steps In

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For much of the twentieth century, American shipyards were engines of industrial power and national will; today, the country that once built fleets capable of turning the tide of wars produces barely three cargo vessels a year while China launches more than a thousand. The gap has grown so wide that it now constitutes a vulnerability in both commerce and defense, prompting the Trump administration to declare a crisis and welcome South Korean capital as a remedy. Yet the very policies emanating from the same White House—steel tariffs, immigration restrictions, the century-old Jones Act—form a q

U.S. Shipbuilding Crisis: America Lags Behind China as Korea Steps In

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