China, Japan and the New US Geostrategy in the Indo-Pacific

Beijing wants to seize new regional opportunities without running afoul of Washington.

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As Washington shifts the burden of regional security onto its allies, U.S. adversaries are moving to exploit the resulting power vacuums. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Western Pacific, where China has sharply escalated pressure on Japan to prevent it from emerging as a regional security actor. Beijing’s strategy is to shape the […]

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Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. Dr. Bokhari is now the Senior Director, Eurasian Security & Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Dr. Bokhari is also a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. He has served as the Coordinator for Central Asia Studies at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @Kamran Bokhari