A report details how China in two decades has grown to be the dominant global player in shipbuilding, dwarfing the U.S., which now has only 0.1% of the global market.

China has become the dominant shipbuilder, while the United States’s efforts have been plagued by several problems. Last year, the China State Shipbuilding Corporation built more commercial vessels by tonnage than the U.

China is leveraging its globally dominant commercial shipbuilding industry to support its naval modernization—and foreign companies are inadvertently helping. This report outlines how the United States and its partners can confront China's dual-use shipyards.

The U.S. says China is the biggest threat to its national security, the pacing challenge that America’s military must stay ahead of to remain the world’s largest and most lethal fighting force. But as VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb reports,

The USA is ramping up its actions against China's dominance in the shipbuilding industry. Authorities plan to impose fees of up to $1.5 million on Chinese ships docking at American ports. According to CNBC,