For years, China has pursued a "string of pearls" strategy to create a network of infrastructure projects and staging posts stretching from its eastern coast to the Middle East along the great trade ...

Gamini Lakshman, Sri Lanka’s Minister of External Affairs, is in China this week, where he met with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Vice President Li Yuanchao. According to a statement from China’s ...

The rivalry between the Elephant and Dragon is often hyped, but India would not challenge China unnecessarily. There is no dispute between China and India in the Indian Ocean. The Line of Actual ...

The so-called String of Pearls strategy, a metaphor coined in Western policy circles in the early 2000s, is far more than a shipping map. It’s Beijing’s blueprint for a chain of naval and port ...