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A Primer on the Escalating Tensions in the South China Sea

The China-Global South Podcast

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The Military to Military Dialogue Is a Negotiation Chip

They see this issue of the military to military dialogue as a bargaining chip. Their most immediate friction point for them is that their current defense minister, Li Shang-Fu, is under US sanction from years ago when China bought some things from Russia. So there is sort of a risk tolerance that they see them having a greater risk tolerance than we do. And they can use that to their advantage. That worries me that there could be one of these incidents.

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