{"id":86055,"date":"2025-03-11T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/03\/11\/chinas-shipbuilding-dominance-a-national-security-risk-for-us-report\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:19:40","slug":"chinas-shipbuilding-dominance-a-national-security-risk-for-us-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2025\/03\/11\/chinas-shipbuilding-dominance-a-national-security-risk-for-us-report\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s shipbuilding dominance a national security risk for US: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In only two decades, China<\/a> has grown to be the dominant player in shipbuilding, claiming more than half of the world\u2019s commercial shipbuilding market, while the U.S. share has fallen to just 0.1%, posing serious economic and national security challenges for the U.S. and its allies, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2024 alone, one Chinese shipbuilder constructed more commercial vessels by tonnage than the entire U.S. shipbuilding industry has built since the end of World War II. China already has the world\u2019s largest naval fleet, the Washington-based bipartisan think tank said in its 75-page report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe erosion of U.S. and allied shipbuilding capabilities poses an urgent threat to military readiness, reduces economic opportunities, and contributes to China\u2019s global power-projection ambitions,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t