The Official Blog of Amb. David H. Shinn

 The South China Morning Post published on 25 December 2025 an article titled " Exhibition Traces China's Long Links with Kenya fr...

  Strategic Horizons  included in its Fall 2025 issue an article titled " Seychelles at a Crossroads: Democracy, Development, and the G...

 The Center for Maritime Security published on 6 May 2024 an analysis titled " China's Calculated Inaction in Red Sea Crisis "...

  The Diplomat published on 16 January 2024 a commentary titled " China's Response to the Houthi Attacks in the Red Sea " by ...

  Military Review published in its May/June edition an article titled " China's Belt and Road Initiative in East Africa: Finding S...

 India's Chanaka Forum published on 16 November 2022 an analysis titled " Rising Rivalry in the Indian Ocean " by Jay Maniyar....

 China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs published on 3 November 2022 a " Joint Statement on Establishing a Comprehensive Strategic Coo...

 The Washington Institute for Near East Policy published in October 2022 a study titled " China's Security Presence in the Middle E...

 The Middle East Institute as part of its All About China series published on 18 May 2021 my analysis titled " China's Maritime Sil...

 Amsterdam University Press published in 2021 a book containing a chapter titled " Ascertaining Agency: Africa and the Belt and Road In...

 The Asia Society Policy Institute Published in September 2020 a study titled " Weaponizing the Belt and Road Initiative " by Dani...

The Began-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies published on 4 August 2020 a commentary titled " The New Silk Road and the Maghreb Region ...

War on the Rocks posted on 24 June 2020 an analysis titled " Who Guards the 'Maritime Silk Road'? " by Veerle Nouwens, Ro...

China Global Television Network interviewed me on 3 September 2018 on the connection between China's Belt and Road Initiative, Africa Ag...

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published in September 2018 a study titled " The 21st Century Maritime Sil...

Thierry Pairault, research director emeritus at France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, posted on 31 August 2018 a study ...

The European Council on Foreign Relations published in April 2018 a study titled " Blue China: Navigating the Maritime Silk Road to Eur...

Hellenic Shipping News published on 12 June 2018 an analysis titled " New Insights into China's Maritime Silk Road " by Richa...

Washington-based C4ADS, a non-profit organization dedicated to data-driven analysis, recently published a study titled " Harbored Ambit...

The European Council on Foreign Relations published in April 2018 a policy brief titled " Blue China: Navigating the Maritime Silk Road...