China Builds Up Its Fleet of Ships That Make Artificial Islands
Venturing ever further from the rivers and coasts that it helped develop in the first three decades of China’s post-Mao reforms, China’s burgeoning dredging fleet has not only excavated new land in the South China Sea, but has also given China a big new shovel to break ground on... Read more

Andrew Erickson

Associate professor at the U.S. Naval War College and an associate in research at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

Kevin Bond

Research intern at the China Maritime Studies Institute at the Naval War College.