Andrew Erickson 艾立信
@AndrewSErickson
Professor of Strategy @NavalWarCollege/@ChinaMaritime Studies Institute. Visiting Scholar @Harvard/@FairbankCenter. Member @CFR_org. Dad.
Superb history of #China #shipbuilding by @_brianpotter! Glad tables from @NavalWarCollege/@ChinaMaritime volume on "Chinese Naval Shipbuilding" with @NavalInstitute/@USNIBooks were useful... amazon.com/Chinese-Naval-… ...as well as from CMSI's very first "Red Book" monograph!…
The People's Republic of China first began to build ships for export in 1975. By 2010, it had become the largest shipbuilder in the world, a title it still holds today. This week on Construction Physics, I look at the history of Chinese shipbuilding. construction-physics.com/p/how-china-be…
Allowing @nvidia to sell H20 chips to China “represents a strategic mis-step that endangers the United States’ economic and military edge in artificial intelligence…We urge [Secretary Lutnick] to reverse course.” Honored to sign this letter (that @Dimi scooped) alongside Matt…
SCOOP Trump freezes export controls to secure trade deal with China & boost the odds of a summit with Xi Jinping. + Security experts concerned at Trump allowing Nvidia to sell H20 to China on.ft.com/4f5y0WM
This is the same 🇨🇳 Cosco that is set to join the 🇺🇸 BlackRock-led consortium acquiring the global port assets — including two strategically important ones along the Panama Canal — from Li Ka-shing’s CK Hutchison while at the same time seeking veto rights or equivalent powers in…
🚨🚨🚨 State-owned 🇨🇳 China Cosco Shipping is set to join the global consortium that’s acquiring Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s overseas ports — including two strategically important ones along the Panama Canal, and is requesting a powerful role in the group in order to secure…
Recent activities by 🇨🇳 vessels suggest Beijing is using state-owned companies such as 🇨🇳 Cosco to prepare for a future assault on Taiwan, which could include commercial vessels acting as Trojan horses for 🇨🇳 military units. Chinese ships now routinely visit Taiwanese ports that…
Scoop: Taiwan's presidential office confirmed to @thewirechina that Chinese civilian vessels that have participated in drills with China's military will be banned from Taiwanese ports. The majority of these vessels belong to one company: Cosco Shipping. thewirechina.com/2025/07/27/chi…
The organizer of Tokyo International Choir Competition removed Taiwan's flag on July 26 — the second day of the 3-day event held at the Dai-ichi Seimei Hall in Tokyo — and changed the name under which Taiwanese teams competed to “Chinese Taipei” after a complaint from 🇨🇳 China;…
July 20: when 🇹🇼 Nibun Chorus (尼布恩合唱團) won a gold medal for Category C27 “Folklore and Indigenous Music with Accompaniment” at the World Choir Games 2024 in Auckland, New Zealand, 🇨🇳 supporters / little pinks in the audience freaked out, hysterically yelling “China! China!…
They’ve been at the location since the end of June. I done several posts about the exercises.
The Shuqiao class Landing Platform Utility (LPU) barges are still undergoing verification exercises at a beach along China's central coast. The three videos show the LPUs connected during overcast skies, but visibility and weather conditions were acceptable.
NEW: Chinese AI models spread pro-Beijing propaganda 60% of the time🚨 These models repeated pro-Beijing false claims about Taiwan’s elections & U.S.-Taiwan relations, including asserting that “Taiwan is a part of China,” & there's “no such thing as a ‘Taiwanese President’.”
The five leading Chinese-backed AI models failed to provide accurate information 60% of the time in response to English and Mandarin language prompts about false narratives promoted by Beijing, a NewsGuard audit found. Read the full report: newsguardtech.com/special-report…
#China's wolf-warrior tactics now include newspaper ads aimed at intimidating #Canada🇨🇦 over Taiwan, but coercion doesn’t change reality. #Taiwan’s🇹🇼 existence is a fact, & truth doesn’t need propaganda to stand firm. Democracies won’t be swayed by threats.
China takes out newspaper ads issuing warnings to Canada on Taiwan torontosun.com/news/national/…
The Ceasefire Between Cambodia and Thailand PRESS STATEMENT MARCO RUBIO, SECRETARY OF STATE JULY 28, 2025 The United States applauds the ceasefire declaration between Cambodia and Thailand announced today in Kuala Lumpur. President Trump and I are committed to an immediate…
This was probably the best achievable outcome while working on adding more items to the zero-tariff list. Critical materials and semiconductors are already included, and Chinese overcapacity is acknowledged together. Being optimistic, this sounds fairly strategic. Bad news for…
Together, the EU and the US are a market of 800 million people. And nearly 44 percent of global GDP. It’s the biggest trade deal ever ↓
Verbose as he is, @HuBo0001 has no case. There's only one entity that's disrupting maritime activity and causing chaos in the SCS. Not the US, not ASEAN nations, only China's PLA/CCG and its gray-zone unflagged vessels.
🤔Umm...how exactly could a C-130 ✈️aircraft have "affected" an 🚢icebreaker's freedom of navigation? (Or perhaps @HuBo0001 is confusing the 🇺🇸@USCG with his own 🇨🇳 country's coast guard, which has of course perfected the art.👇👇👇
US Coast Guard seems to have affected the freedom of navigation of Chinese ship. Moreover, The US has not ratified UNCLOS, so what is its basis for claiming the outer continental shelf in the way of bypassing CLCS and International Seabed Authority? newsweek.com/mapped-us-coas…
Today, we pause to remember the courage and sacrifice of the heroes who served during the Korean War. On July 27, 1953, the armistice was signed, ending three years of conflict, but the legacy of their resilience lives on.
Hu Bo: “China’s dashed line claim does not violate any UNCLOS provisions. The claim is primarily based on the historical practice of Chinese ancestors in the South China Sea, encompassing sovereignty over islands within the line & historical rights in the waters within it.
July 25: the US Coast Guard detected and responded to the China-flagged research ship 🇨🇳 Xue Long 2 (雪龙 2 号), an icebreaker operated by the Polar Research Institute of China, on the US Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) in the US Arctic, ~290 NM north of Utqiagvik, Alaska and…
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The Shuqiao Landing Platform Utility (LPU) barges conducting their verification tests are located at two beaches on Nantian Island in Ningbo province. The LPUs began the tests in late June at Beach One, located north of Hepu Dasha Beach.
As of yesterday, the first batch of barges remain stationed at Dasha Bay, Xiangshan. x.com/SynMaxInt/stat…
UPDATE: The three Chinese-built Shuiqiao-Class Landing Platform Utility (LPU) barges remain stationed at Dasha Bay, Xiangshan, in the East China Sea, as confirmed by both electro-optical (EO) and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. SynMax’s maritime domain awareness…
Thanks to @IndoPacPodcast @ianellisjones , @GordianKnotRay and Jim Caruso for giving me the chance to air some serious national security and economic issues Australia faces in dealing with the #China challenge and why the US should be concerned about a key ally in the region.…
This detailed thread on escalations, incidents, and events leading up to the July 24th Border clashes between 🇹🇭 and 🇰🇭 contains several previously unreported facts relating to Cambodian deployments and numerous satellite images of growing fortifications. Check it out.
🧵A detailed timeline on escalations in the lead-up to yesterday's clashes between Thailand and Cambodia. Much of the escalation seems to stem from Cambodia, with their troops fortifying many sectors before the May 28 clashes and surging strategic assets immediately after. 🗺️ -…
This project could not have been completed without the generous support and encouragement of many people. I would like to sincerely thank Chairman Ming-Yi Hao of Locus Publishing for making this publication possible, Professor Ying-yu Lin for writing the preface, as well as the…
This book introduces a range of practical interpretation techniques—including how to identify PLA bases via satellite imagery, decode unit identities through military license plates, and observe amphibious exercises using publicly available data. It also includes an exclusive,…