SECURITY, UNREST & WAR

What Does Beijing Do Now?

Presidential elections in Taiwan repudiated PRC pressure, just as protests in Hong Kong have done. Beijing hoped 2019 would be the year that all significant opposition to its strategic rise would be silenced.

The 500 tonne disp. Republic of China Navy corvette Tuo Jiang, launched in 2014, was the harbinger of a new type of Taiwanese naval capacity, built around highly-maneuverable, high-impact ships, including wave-piercing catamaran frigates and other ships, plus new indigenously-designed submarines, plus the modernization of its two existing Hai Lung (Sea Dragon) class (Netherlands-built Zwaardvis-class) submarines

How Niger's Attempted Coup Exposed Decisive Geopolitical Competition in West Africa

Xi Lashes Out in the Pacific and Africa, But to What End?

The jury remains out as to whether Beijing has a clearly thought-through agenda with the Pacific Islands Forum, meeting this week, or even in Africa, or whether it is just lashing out to show that it still matters. But, rest assured, it is lashing out.

What Does Beijing Do Now?

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