A Shining City on the Sea: Rebuilding America’s Maritime Industry - American Affairs Journal

A Shining City on the Sea: Rebuilding America’s Maritime Industry - American Affairs Journal

China’s rise as a strategic adversary and maritime power has finally triggered much-needed introspection and shaken America out of a multigenerational hibernation. The U.S. maritime industrial base (MIB) faces a Chinese counterpart hundreds of times larger in both shipbuilding capacity and commercial orders. Revitalizing America’s maritime industry to compete and win in a global economy saturated with nonmarket actors requires dramatic and rapid…