The European Council on Foreign Relations published in April 2018 a policy brief titled "Blue China: Navigating the Maritime Silk Road to Europe" by Mathieu Duchatel and Alexandre Sheldon Duplaix.
While the focus of the study is Europe, the authors conclude that China's Maritime Silk Road is about power and international influence. Northeast Africa, especially Djibouti, the Red Sea, and the Suez Canal are an important part of this construct.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
China-Africa Military Relations
The China Africa Project ran a 30 minute podcast on 30 June 2015 titled "China's Expanding Military Presence in Africa." Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden interviewed me on a variety of China-Africa military issues, including UN peacekeeping operations, anti-piracy in the Gulf of Aden, military sales, emergency evacuation of Chinese nationals from Africa, and rumors of new Chinese military activities in Africa.
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