04
March 2025
Past Event
How US Maritime Industries Can Help Deter China

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Inquiries: tmagnuson@hudson.org.

How US Maritime Industries Can Help Deter China

Past Event
Hudson Institute
March 04, 2025
USNS Harvey Milk departs the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard after a ceremonial address in San Diego, California on November 6, 2021. (AFP via Getty Images)
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USNS Harvey Milk departs the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard after a ceremonial address in San Diego, California on November 6, 2021. (AFP via Getty Images)
04
March 2025
Past Event

Event will air on this page.

 

Inquiries: tmagnuson@hudson.org.

Speakers:
Jennifer Carpenter
Jennifer Carpenter

President, American Waterways Operators and the American Maritime Partnership

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Michael Roberts

Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

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China’s commercial maritime dominance is unprecedented in modern history. Its shipbuilding industry is more than 200 times larger than that of the United States. Last year, it won three-quarters of the world’s shipbuilding orders and delivered three ships to the Chinese navy for each ship American shipbuilders completed for the US Navy. China’s commercial fleet is about 10 times larger than that of the US, and China has ownership interests in more than 100 ports outside of China, including at every maritime chokepoint. This maritime dominance gives China extraordinary power to manipulate vital supply chains.

Jennifer Carpenter, president of the American Waterways Operators and the American Maritime Partnership, will join Senior Fellow Michael Roberts to discuss how America’s maritime industry can help counter China’s shipping and shipbuilding dominance.

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