China Global Podcast - Ep 127 ft. Dr. Collin Doh
On today’s episode of the China Global Podcast, we’re going to discuss the South China Sea. The past year has been marked by four intersecting dynamics: First, a sharp escalation of Chinese Coast G...
China’s activity around Taiwan is shifting from occasional major military drills to a more persistent operational presence. Frequent aircraft and naval deployments, expanded surveillance, and incre...
China is already influential in the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and across global institutions. Professor Bec Strating tells a Lowy Institute audience that containment is the wrong frame. What matte...
What can Southeast Asia learn from the conflict in the Persian Gulf and should we be worried about the next ...
What’s the biggest takeaway on the Strait of Hormuz after the Trump–Xi summit in Beijing on 14–15 May 2026?
How might US–China relations, and an increasing Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean re...
May 14, 2026 — Senior Vice President of the Asia Society Policy Institute Wendy Cutler discusses the Trump-Xi meeting, U.S.-China trade relations, Taiwan, the Strait of Hormuz, and China’s economic...
What Does China Really Think About the Iran War? | The High Top
CSIS’s Jon Alterman and Edgard Kagan discuss China’s feelings about U.S. military power and the lessons it could learn from Iran to shape a potential campaign against Taiwan.
China’s View of the War in Iran: A Conversation with Zhang Chuchu
...an and what the conflict means for China’s interests and strategy in the Middle East. She explains Chinese concerns about regional spillover, energy security, and the erosion...
China's Pressure on Taiwan
China’s rising maritime and air incursions around Taiwan reveal a sustained coercion campaign designed to normalize pressure below the threshold of war, raising urgent questions about how the Unite...
China and the Iran War: Beijing's Ambitions in the Middle East
...llow Henrietta Levin is joined by Aaron Glasserman, an expert on China's Middle East strategy and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Study...
Is China Quietly Winning the Iran War?
The war with Iran isn’t just a Middle East story anymore. As attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz disrupt global energy markets...
Dr Yu Jie, Senior Research Fellow on China in Chatham House's Asia-Pacific Programme on the lessons that China's leadership has learned from the Iran war.
Read more from Dr Yu Jie here: https://w...
Is #China testing #Russia's control over the Arctic Sea?
Sino-Russia relations expert Elizabeth Wishnick joins APF Canada’s Vina Nadjibulla on our latest episode of Asia Pacific conversations to unpack China's engagement in the Arctic, Russia's push back...
Dr Yu Jie, Senior Research Fellow on China in Chatham House's Asia-Pacific Programme on the Chinese leadership's position on the Iran war, and how it impacts their approach to US-China relations.
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On 26 March, ASPI and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS) hosted a public panel event exploring how China is deploying maritime coercion in the Indo-Pacific, how open-source methods can...
...rable it feels. Michael Wesley argues that China is no different, and that Southeast Asia sits at the heart of its anxieties.
Wesley was speaking at the Lowy Institute in co...
“The Chinese absolutely are not interested in getting militarily involved in the Gulf,” says Meghan L. O’Sullivan, director of and professor at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science an...
Holding the Line: Denial Defense Along the First Island Chain
Mike joins Toshi Yoshihara, Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington, D.C., to explore the significance of the First Island Chain in U.S. strategic thi...