OPINION_ Stop the Invisible Commerce—How State-Backed Chinese Finance Is Neutralizing Sanctions (Charles Davis - THE EPOCH TIMES)

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Stop the Invisible Commerce—How State-Backed Chinese Finance Is Neutralizing Sanctions

Shipping containers are stacked as cranes unload cargo ships at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, Calif., on April 15, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Charles Davis
1/13/2026|Updated: 1/13/2026

Commentary

When infrastructure replaces payment, sanctions cease to bite, and strategic leverage becomes durable.

A ship doesn’t need to vanish to disappear. Sometimes it just needs to “blink” at the right moment. Automatic Identification System (AIS) gaps can create that moment—especially where the sea is crowded, and the questions are few.

In sanctions-avoidance cases, those gaps often precede ship-to-ship transfers that never show up cleanly in the paperwork. A cargo then becomes a “blend”: physically mixed or relabeled on paper, making the sanctioned product harder to trace. That’s why U.S. maritime sanctions guidance keeps returning to the same behaviors.

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