Category: the Indo-Pacific

Tory Candidates Take on China Policy in French Leadership Debate

Tory leadership candidates presented their approach to China policy during the French-language debate on May 25, providing their response to the moderator’s question, “What, as prime minister, would be your attitude to China?” Moderator Marc-Olivier Fortin prefaced his question with the context that China has now taken control of Hong Kong, and is expected to attack Taiwan’s…


An ‘Aircraft Carrier Arms Race’ in the Indo-Pacific?

News Analysis China is reportedly less than six months away from launching its third aircraft carrier. This is also the second carrier that it has constructed domestically (its first is an ex-Soviet vessel purchased by Beijing in the late 1990s). This vessel, designated the Type-003, will be the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) first “supercarrier”:…


Beijing Woos Washington Back to the Atlantic

Commentary Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping is working hard to ensure that the United States moves it strategic center of gravity back to the Atlantic and away from the Indo-Pacific. But even strong moves to show a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) thrust into the Atlantic may be insufficient to divert anything but…