China has spent 80 years building formidable marine science capabilities. The harder test now is whether it can build rules for ocean data that its neighbours trust – and share. When China’s first department of oceanography was established in 1946, the country had only a modest capacity to stud...
Source: [SCMP](https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3364274/how-china-can-turn-its-blue-cradle-bridge-southeast-asia?utm_source=rss_feed)