Report summary: China and the Battle of Coalitions: The ‘circle of friends’ versus the Indo-Pacific strategy
China and the Battle of Coalitions: The ‘circle of friends’ versus the Indo-Pacific strategy. By Alice Ekman, from European Union Institute for Security Studies, April 2022, 58 Pages, https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/CP_174_0.pdf Since the advent of Xi Jinping as the President of the People’s Republic of China in March 2013, China has focused on enlarging its ‘circle of friends’, and on finally putting an end to the partial diplomatic isolation the Read more…