China's Security Policy in Africa and the Western Indian Ocean

The International Affairs Forum asked me to write a short piece on China's Security Policy in Africa and the Western Indian Ocean. My response underscores China's limited security interests in Africa. On the other hand, it points out that China's expanding economy may require it to play a greater security role along the sea lanes in the western Indian Ocean that bring so much oil and raw materials from Africa and the Middle East to China.

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