Playing the long game
Jul 17, 2022
3 minutes
by JEREMY REES
SINOSTAN: CHINA’S INADVERTENT EMPIRE, by Raffaello Pantucci and Alexandros Petersen (Oxford University Press, £20)
News broke in April that China and the Solomon Islands had signed a security pact. In return, last month the US and allies, including New Zealand, launched “Partners in the Blue Pacific” (PBP). Great Power competition had reached our waters.
But what could a Chinese Pacific venture look like? A new book examining Chinese expansion along
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