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China’s Encirclement Concerns
For almost two decades, Chinese strategists have worried about what they regard as the geopolitical encirclement of China. At various times, they have attributed that encirclement to the United States,...
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Getting Tougher: Vietnam’s Response to China’s South China Sea Bases
Over the last few months, Vietnam has quietly deployed the components of several Extended Range Artillery (EXTRA) rocket systems to five of the islands that it occupies in the Spratly archipelago,...
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Who Benefits from China’s “One Belt, One Road” Initiative?
China’s Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road Under its Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road (commonly known as the “One Belt, One Road” initiative)...
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Standing Firm, Mostly: Militarization of the South China Sea
China’s Presence in the South China Sea Last week, a Chinese naval vessel which had been shadowing the USNS Bowditch, a U.S. Navy oceanographic ship, scooped up one of the ship’s unmanned underwater...
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