🇺🇸🇨🇳🚢 Does America Face a “Ship Gap” With China?

A crucial problem for U.S. shipbuilding is its increasingly long production. Most modern warship designs take much longer to build than their World War II counterparts; at the same time, U.S. industry has become less efficient, not more.

Like Japan in World War II, the United States seems to be driven by an assumption that superior weapons and training will compensate for its slower shipbuilding and allow its outnumbered fleet to quickly prevail in a war at sea with China. The Chinese navy, by contrast, resembles the U.S. fleet in the runup to Pearl Harbor: qualitatively less capable than its prospective opponent but with a far greater shipbuilding capacity that during a war could allow it to rapidly recover from early losses and, over time, overwhelm even a more skilled opponent whose production simply could not keep up.

https://archive.is/KPGbG

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/does-america-face-ship-gap-china#

🇹🇷❌🇹🇷📹 — Erdogan Government Top Turkish TV watchdog executive is now calling Turkish TV channels one by one, instructing them to stop live broadcasts and coverage of the Kemalist-led Pro-Imamoglu protests or face consequences by the Turkish Government

https://x.com/ilhantasci/status/1903570682299977902

🇹🇷⚡️All live broadcasts on opposition TV channels have been suspended in Turkey.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/MilitaryStrategist

🇹🇷⚡️The Turkish prosecutor's office has demanded the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in cases of corruption and terrorism , CNN Türk reports.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/MilitaryStrategist

❌❌🇹🇷❗️ — X/Twitter has suspended multiple opposition accounts in Turkey amid protests following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, a key rival to President Erdoğan, at request of Erdogan Government!

🇹🇷⚡️Police are using water cannons, tear gas and non-lethal ammunition to disperse mass protests by supporters of the jailed mayor of Istanbul.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/MilitaryStrategist

🇹🇷🔥📹 — Members of Turkish Parliament from the Kemalist CHP and lawyers representing Turkish opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu are currently clashing with Turkish Riot police inside the Regional courthouse in Istanbul, Turkey.

🇹🇷🇹🇷👮 — Visuals from Istanbul Regional Courthouse as Turkish Riot Police block the corridor for the main court section

🇹🇷❌🇹🇷❗️ — Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu has been formally removed from office, Erdogan's Interior Ministry says

🇺🇸🚨 FBI warns of nationwide incidents—arson, gunfire, and vandalism targeting Tesla EVs, dealerships, and charging stations in 9+ states, linked to political grievances

https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA250321

🇺🇸🏛👨‍💻 The NYU website has been hacked.

This is its main page right now: A graph showing the discrepancies between the mean SAT scores of different racial groups, highlighted by the massive difference between Asians (1485) and blacks (1289) — a nearly 200-point difference.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250322133330/https://www.nyu.edu/

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🇹🇷🐍❌🇹🇷 — Turkish Libertarians, presumably supporters of Liberal Democratic Party of Turkey, are seen at Anti-Erdogan protests out on the streets of Istanbul with the Gadsden flag

🇹🇷🇹🇷❌💸📉 — Turkish Market regulator bans short selling as millions gather in support of the Kemalist opposition and the Republican People's Party

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🇱🇷 U.S. WHITE HOUSE SAYS GOLD RESERVES MAY BE USED TO PURCHASE BITCOIN

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🇨🇳 China Discloses Powerful Deep-Sea Cable Cutter, SCMP Reports

China revealed for the first time that it has developed a compact deep-sea cable cutting device that is powerful enough to severe communication lines, the South China Morning Post reported.

The tool is able to operate at a depth of up to 4,000 meters (13,123 feet) and has been designed for use with the country’s advanced manned or unmanned submersible vehicles, the report said, citing a peer-reviewed paper published in the Chinese-language journal Mechanical Engineer on Feb. 24.

Developed by the China Ship Scientific Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Deep-Sea Manned Vehicles, the cutter revealed by China targets so-called “armored cables,” lines with steel, rubber and polymer sheaths that make up the overwhelming majority of global data transmissions, the SCMP added.

https://gcaptain.com/china-discloses-powerful-deep-sea-cable-cutter-scmp-reports/

🌏🚤 Notable developments in the Indo-Pacific last week:

- China conducted back-to-back joint combat patrols 24nm from Taiwan on the same day for the first time
- 59 PLA aircraft detected around Taiwan + 43 entered its ADIZ on Monday, largest single-day surge of 2025 + highest in 5 months
- Recent PLA military drills in the Taiwan Strait, Western Pacific, South China Sea, East China Sea, + Yellow/Bohai Sea
- New Shuiqiao landing barges carrying out docking trials with civil-military RO-RO ferries
- Elevated PLA drone activity, including WZ-10 + GJ-2

Taiwan recently wrapped up a week of “Rapid Response Exercises,” practicing tactical maneuvers, key asset protection, concealment, and cover operations to enhance readiness and response capabilities. MND said: “ROC Armed Forces closely monitor maritime and aerial activities, conducting joint operations to track and respond to PLA incursions.”

China’s foreign ministry stated: “China’s relevant military operation is necessary, lawful and legitimate in order to defend national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity. It’s a firm response to external forces who are hellbent on abetting and aiding ‘Taiwan independence,’ and a warning to ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces’ unconscionable acts... Those who attempt to use Taiwan to contain China will get burned for playing with fire.”

https://fxtwitter.com/ianellisjones/status/1903978064217772162