An Alaskan Bump in the US-China Road

And is more trouble in store from the South China Sea?

Dear all

It has been a hectic few days in the China watching world. I was planning on writing a special piece on China’s influence in the Middle East, inspired by an announcement in the recently concluded National People’s Congress that China will seek the “safeguarding of the safety of strategic channels and key nodes”. This sounds like a declaration of…