COLUMN | Chinese paramilitary forces to the fore as Beijing ramps up territorial claims [Naval Gazing]

Although collisions, confrontations, and harassment in the South China Sea (SCS) often make the headlines these days, the reach and depth of China’s strategy of intrusive patrolling as Beijing seeks to establish a persistent and dominant presence in the sea are not widely understood. The People’s...

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OPINION | China’s “blue dragon” strategy in the Indo-Pacific

To compete strategically with the United States and undermine President Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific policy, China has quietly been advancing its stealthy divide-and-conquer foreign policy agenda on four different but connected frontiers. The core of Beijing’s comprehensive plan can be described as a “blue dragon” strategy, anchored primarily between two “unsinkable aircraft carriers”, Sri Lanka and […]

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OPINION | How China’s maritime militia takes advantage of the grey zone

At the end of last year, Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies released the 2023 edition of its annual China security report, which focuses on China’s quest ..

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COLUMN | Standing up to China: tensions mount in Asian waters [Naval Gazing]

For many years, paramilitary patrol ships of the China Coast Guard (CCG) and its predecessor, China Maritime Surveillance, usually lightly-armed, but often with the reinf ..

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