China has delivered its first homegrown large cruise ship. This makes China the only country in the world to have mastered the building of aircraft carriers, large liquefied natural gas tankers and large cruise ships, known as the three “crown jewels” of the shipbuilding industry. What’s the significance of this capability? The cruise ship Adora Magic City has attracted not only ardent tourists, but also Western skeptics. The latter are touting the idea that the cruise ship poses an “overlooked amphibious assault challenge” and can be used by China for military purposes. How true are such assertions?
Host Tu Yun cruises through these questions and more with Dr. Chen Gang, Chief Designer of Adora Magic City and General Manager of the shipbuilder CSSC Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, Harvey Dzodin, Senior Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization and Dr. Qu Qiang, Research Fellow of Global Issues, Beijing Foreign Studies University on this episode of Chat Lounge.
