This marks China’s sixth major round of war games since 2022. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Greg Poling testified before the U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission on China’s military and security footprint in the Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands Chair Price, Vice Chair ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Over the past fifteen years, China has increasingly become the dominant military ...