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Anchors Away

In this commentary, we examine how beneficial owners across the fishing, cargo, and tanker industries exploit shell companies and open flag registries...

Pier Pressure

In the past three months, more than 80 high-risk distant water squid fishing vessels have landed in Chilean ports — an increase...

Keeping the Lights On

New C4ADS analysis charts an extensive network of onshore and offshore support systems that enable illicit distant-water squid fishing operations, helping malign...

Off The NASDAQ, Still On The High Seas

In this update to our 2022 Net Worth report, we chart how Pingtan Marine Enterprise and Fuzhou Honglong Ocean Fishing entities have...

Staying Afloat

On Wednesday, June 11, 2025, C4ADS discussed the onshore and offshore support systems that enable the distant water squid fishing fleet to...

Bulldozed

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has long been plagued by accusations of corruption, fraud, environmental degradation, and labor exploitation — now,...

The Data-Driven Approach to Investigating the BRI

On Wednesday, May 14, 2025, C4ADS hosted a webinar that explored data-driven methodologies for investigating entities involved in China's Belt and Road...

Unearthed

As the Wagner Group established early mining operations in Sudan and the Central African Republic, it funneled payments for equipment and supplies...

Buffered Extraction

As global demand for critical metals like cobalt, copper, and gold rises in response to a burgeoning green economy, Chinese enterprises are...

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