Abstract The simultaneous rise of China and now India is a fundamental factor for understanding the twenty-first century. In rising as Great Powers, a relative…
Country or Region: China
Abstract In recent years, China’s strategic community has emerged as an increasingly vocal and influential constituent of Chinese policy debates. This article focuses on Chinese…
Abstract This article argues that an increasingly sea-power-minded China will neither shelter passively in coastal waters, nor throw itself into competition with the United States…
Abstract Ever since their emergence as modern states in the middle of the twentieth century, relations between India and China have been exceedingly complex in…
Abstract Debates about China’s national strategy have surprisingly overlooked an important source: the national strategy as formulated by China’s leaders themselves. This article explains how…
Abstract Confronted during the first decade of the twenty-first century with the rapidly burgeoning US-Indian security partnership and then by the emergence of the India-Japan…
Abstract Maritime security concerns in the South China Sea are increasing for several reasons: higher volumes of shipping traffic, protection of exclusive economic zone resources,…
Abstract As maritime trading becomes an increasingly important element of the modern Chinese economy, concerns in Beijing are being raised about the safety of vital…
Abstract Although China and the United States do not rely on one another for energy supplies, the prospects for energy to become a cause for…
Abstract This paper analyses the Chinese quest for energy resources in Latin America, arguing that the strengthening of relations in this sector can only be…
Abstract Maritime security in the South China Sea faces a number of challenges, ranging from lower-level nontraditional threats to traditional politicostrategic considerations, including the potential…
Abstract China’s recent claims to a large “U-shaped” area in the South China Sea, involving the disputed Spratly and Paracel Islands, has given rise to…
Abstract Despite its existence on the Chinese maps for more than six decades, the U-shaped line, as a traditional maritime boundary line of China in…
Abstract This article examines recent developments in the East China Sea maritime disputes, focusing primarily on the Principled Consensus agreed on by China and Japan…
Abstract This article discusses one of the most difficult disputes in the world, the territorial dispute over the Tiaoyu Islands. This dispute has defied solution…
