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Op-Ed: China’s Gray Zone Fleet is Undermining Taiwan’s Control at Sea
[By Nathan Attrill]China’s pressure on Taiwan increasingly relies on vessels that aren’t warships. Instead, Beijing is deploying a maritime grey-zone… maritime-executive
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Op-Ed: Mideast Conflict Provides a Test of Economic Resilience
[By Adi Imsirovic and Antonio Fatas]The world economy survived the shocks of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which has had limited impact…
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Op-Ed: UK Naval Shrinkage Taints London Defence Conference
Attempts to develop the annual London Defence Conference as an annual geopolitical event rivalling the Munich Security Conference are facing…
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Op-Ed: HKC Certification Can’t Substitute for the Basel Convention
The global ship recycling debate sits at the intersection of two legal regimes that were never designed to fit neatly…
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Op-Ed: Who Speaks for America’s Maritime Workforce?
In the recent segment on the American maritime industry on 60 Minutes, some of the most important questions facing the…
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Op-Ed: Arctic Metagaz Explosion Shows That LNG Carriers Have Risks
A recent explosive event involving a liquified natural gas (LNG) carrier laden with Russian Arctic gas should serve as a wake…
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Op-Ed: Ships Should Meet the Polar Code Before Entering Canadian Arctic
The United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted the Polar Code in November 2014 to reduce loss of life at…
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Op-Ed: The Most Important Meeting in the World is About Oil
On the morning of March 1, a tanker called the Skylight was moving through the narrow waters north of Khasab,…
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Op-Ed: Kharg Island Strikes Have Little Effect if Iran’s Tankers Sail On
It is unclear what the aim was behind the overwhelming air attack mounted against Kharg Island on March 13, which…
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Op-Ed: End in Sight for the Strait of Hormuz Blockade
One doesn’t want to sound too sharp and all-knowing, nor does one want to telegraph to the enemy any warning…
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