WASHINGTON—Bai Shuyuan still remembers her parents’ late-night conversations two decades ago.The parents thought she was asleep, and her father would retell some of his experiences in Chinese prison to her mother in the only bedroom the family had.“Silent tears soaked my pillow when I...

The United States has long been “sea blind” and is now waking up. That is how maritime historian Salvatore Mercogliano describes the country’s newfound awareness.“We equate sea power with military naval power,” he told The Epoch Times. “We’re not equating it with commercial trade....