Delighted to share my latest in @SecStudies_Jrnl: China’s Global Maritime Access: Alternatives to Overseas Military Bases in the Twenty-First Century. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10….

Quick summary in thread below👇 Why has PRC leadership not (yet) established a network of bases to address security threats to China’s overseas interests?

Compared to its own global economic power and interests (and even cf. some middle powers), China is underweight in its global military basing posture (1/6)

New ⁦@Journal_IS⁩ piece with ⁦@wendyleutert⁩ analyzes PRC firms’ ports overseas. We observe that the PLA (especially navy) has already made extensive use of this network to project power at a global scale. (1/4) direct.mit.edu/isec/article/4… Chinese firms own and operate 96 terminals in 53 countries on every continent (except Antarctica). These holdings are mostly concentrated in only a few state-owned firms. Beijing employs several mechanisms to control these firms’ port assets. (2/4)