<p>Shipbuilding hogged the headlines at Splash this week with images of the White House and its occupant down considerably week-on-week. The East Asian shipbuilding tango &#8211; one of the persistent shipping news themes of 2025 &#8211; garnered the most column inches. A contraction in Chinese shipbuilding orders has been registered in the first half of &#8230;</p> </p><p><p>https://splash247.com/splash-wrap-shipyards-and-geopolitics/</p></p>