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ACuriousPLAFan

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Related, this is an interest write up from Brian Potter, who suggests that the US never had a competitive commercial shipbuilding industry during the entire cold war. The standard narrative is that Chinese, Korean and Japanese shipbuilders are so effective because they can pivot between a huge commercial industry and military clients yet this was never the case in the US. What's not clear to me is why shipbuilding has atrophied so hard since the end of the cold war if Americans were never particularly skilled (or how they produced such a huge fleet in the first place). Simply less money now?

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To put it simply, the United States fvcked their own shipbuilding a$$es thanks to their 1920 Jones Act. That Act literally made their shipbuilding industry "dependent on the sky to feed" (靠天吃饭).

There have been multiple attempts throughout decades at repealing the Act, but hey - Just say the word "CHYNAAA!!!", and you have the answer on why the Act will never go away.

Just ask CSBA.

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