Great to be in DC for meetings with friends & colleagues Department of Defense 🇺🇸, National Defense University, CASI, CNA, Jamestown Foundation & much more!

***BREAKING*** #China has built the world’s first dedicated drone carrier. It’s about the size of escort carriers of World War Two. #OSINT navalnews.com/naval-news/202…

House Homeland GOP Rep. Clay Higgins Now do the CIA

New! U.S. Naval War College/China Maritime-CMSI Report #40: “Onboard Political Control—The #Ship Political Commissar in #Chinese Merchant Shipping” digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-maritime-… Timely w/ Strategic #Port Reporting Act introduced by Senator Mark Kelly, Senator Marco Rubio: Archived & Rick Scott! Previous 39

New! U.S. Naval War College/China Maritime-CMSI Translation #6: “Building a World-Class #Navy in a Comprehensive Way: Its Logic in Theory, History & Practice” digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-translati… #OpenSource #Chinese-language insights via Ian Easton! Key content from all #CMSI translations here:

The Voyage of the Meishan and Xiushan: China’s Template for a Blue-Water Coast Guard War on the Rocks warontherocks.com/2024/11/the-vo…

New Book Today! “#Chinese #Amphibious #Warfare: Prospects for a Cross-Strait Invasion” digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-studies/8/ The U.S. Naval War College/China Maritime-CMSI Studies Institute is thrilled to announce the publication of our latest conference edited volume! Edited by Dr. Andrew Erickson 艾立信,

New Collection Alert! 📣 Since 2005, China Maritime-CMSI has hosted conferences here at NWC. For the 1st time, we've compiled the edited volumes from these as a book collection titled "CMSI Studies in Maritime Development" Check out the collection here: digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-studies/

New! U.S. Naval War College/China Maritime-CMSI Translation #10: “Transformation, How Significant is the Role of an Airfield Station?” digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-translati… Links & key content from previous 9 translations: bit.ly/WoodyIs From #CMSI Director CAPT Chris Sharman, U.S. Navy

A big development if true... "董军落马" ["Dong Jun has been dismissed"] Can anyone in the know confirm, deny, or elaborate? 多谢! 🙏 #董军 #DongJun #董军被查

New—The Ryan Martinson Bookshelf! bit.ly/ProfessorMarti… Read the latest & greatest by Ryan Martinson/China Maritime-CMSI/U.S. Naval War College. Review Prof. Martinson’s unique insights on PLA Navy personnel issues as we analyze Admiral #MiaoHua (#苗华)’s fall & watch for more shoes to

Can anyone in the know please share the most recent confirmed official appearance of PLA Navy Political Commissar Admiral Yuan Huazhi (海军政治委员袁华智)? Following longtime rumors that Yuan is under investigation for “corruption,” his reported absence seems increasingly

Some context for the officially-announced dismissal of Vice Admiral Li Pengcheng (李鹏程)—now a triple "former": Former Deputy Commander of the Southern Theater Command, Former Commander of the Southern Theater Command & a Former Deputy to the 14th National People’s Congress:

Honored to have my coauthored Note 11—“Admiral Miao Hua’s Fall: Further Navy Fallout?”—quoted extensively by Frank Chung/news.com.au! news.com.au/technology/inn… Miao’s removal sent shockwaves through China’s military and may have “significant ramifications for his patronage

Samuel B. Griffith Foundation Names “Chinese Amphibious Warfare” 2025 Publication of the Year! Full text China Maritime-CMSI/U.S. Naval War College: digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-studies/8/ Background: bit.ly/PublicationOfT… 2025 Samuel B. Griffith Foundation Reading List Purpose. To establish a list

New! U.S. Naval War College/China Maritime-CMSI Report #47— “The People of #China’s #Navy & Other Maritime Forces: Extended Summary of Conference Findings” digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-maritime-… Main Findings: — Xi Jinping has played a direct & active role in China’s naval buildup. He is China’s first

Read findings from our biennial China Maritime-CMSI Conference, "The PLA(N) & Other Maritime Forces": digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-findings/… Topics include PLA(N) leadership, warfare communities, recruitment & retention, other sea service personnel, & implications for the U.S. Navy & allies/partners.

Extended findings from our biennial China Maritime-CMSI Conference have been officially released. The full report is available here: digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-maritime-… Read more about the conference here: dvidshub.net/r/dj89ri

Brilliant new Center for International Maritime Security article by my U.S. Naval War College/China Maritime-CMSI colleague Ryan Martinson! “Exposed Undersea: PLA Navy Officer Reflections on #China’s Not-So-Silent Service” cimsec.org/exposed-unders… From #CMSI Director CAPT Chris Sharman, U.S. Navy (Ret.): What do PLAN

New! U.S. Naval War College/China Maritime-CMSI Studies Institute Note 15: bit.ly/VADMLiHanjun “PLAN Chief of Staff VADM Li Hanjun: Fast-Rising Star of Training & Education Extinguished” From #CMSI Director CAPT Chris Sharman, U.S. Navy (Ret.): China Navy Watchers: Another senior