Unpacking the White House’s Executive Order on Restoring the U.S ...
Apr 10, 2025 · 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 …
What China’s 2025 White Paper Says About Its Maritime Strategy
Aug 19, 2025 · China's 2025 white paper reflects Beijing’s effort to recalibrate its national security strategy to both integrate domestic development priorities and respond to a rapidly evolving strategic …
The U.S. Coast Guard and the Future of Maritime Cybersecurity
Oct 23, 2025 · With nearly $25 billion in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a deep bench of cyber executive leaders, and recently expanded cyber authorities, the Coast Guard is poised to make generational …
The State of Maritime Supply-Chain Threats - CSIS
Nov 4, 2024 · 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 …
Signals in the Swarm: The Data Behind China’s Maritime Gray ... - CSIS
Oct 8, 2025 · This brief presents a new data-driven framework for identifying Chinese maritime gray zone activity near Taiwan, using AIS tracking, fishing effort data, and military drill zones to flag …
Gregory B. Poling - CSIS
Gregory B. Poling directs the Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he is also a senior fellow. He is a leading expert …
China’s Maritime Silk Road: Strategic and Economic ... - CSIS
Apr 2, 2018 · 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, …
Responding to China’s Growing Influence in Ports of the Global South
Oct 30, 2024 · Maritime transport is the backbone of international trade. Around 80 percent of the volume of international trade in goods is carried by sea; this figure is even greater for developing …
How the United States Can Overcome Icebreaker Construction Woes …
Jul 15, 2025 · 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 …
China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative: Economic Drivers and ... - CSIS
Apr 2, 2018 · China’s leaders have mapped out an ambitious plan, the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI), to establish three “blue economic passages” that will connect Beijing with economic hubs …