Professor @NavalWarCollege @ChinaMaritime Studies Institute. Visiting Prof. @HarvardGovernm1. Assoc. in Research @Harvard @FairbankCenter. Member @CFR_org. Dad.
May 20, 2018 • 71 tweets • 30 min read
hearing—"#China's Worldwide #Military Expansion" is a dramatic bellwether of growing concerns in Washington & beyond.
Now online—hard-hitting arguments + many data points, some deeply-analyzed yet hard to find elsewhere in public domain: bit.ly/HouseIC
CAPT Jim Fanell, USN Ret, former @USPacificFleet N2:
"today, the PLA Navy consists of over 330 surface ships & 66 submarines, nearly 400 combatants. As of 4 May 2018, the @USNavy consists of 283 battle force ships: 211 surface ships and 72 submarines." bit.ly/HouseIC
Dec 27, 2017 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"NK is known to employ deceptive shipping practices, incl ship-to-ship transfers..prohibited by UNSCR 2375 of Sept 11...images below..taken on Oct 19...depict a recent attempt by Korea Kumbyol Trad Co's...RYE SONG GANG 1 to conduct a ship-to-ship transfer" treasury.gov/press-center/p…
"The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today sanctioned one individual, 13 entities & 20 vessels as the US continues to take action multilaterally and unilaterally to disrupt North Korea's illicit funding...." treasury.gov/press-center/p…
Dec 14, 2017 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
In China, a Three-Digit Score Could Dictate Your Place in Society
"It was as if Amazon had swallowed eBay, Apple News, Groupon, American Express, Citibank, and YouTube—and could siphon up data from all of them."
Preempting instability:
“That’s why social credit ideally requires both coercive aspects and nicer aspects, like providing social services and solving real problems. It’s all under the same Orwellian umbrella.”
