Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) professor Dr. Mohan Malik had an article published in The Diplomat entitled "China and Strategic Imbalance" July 14. Here is an excerpt from the article: "The recent Shangri-la meeting in Singapore saw some sharp exchanges between Chinese and other participants. Beijing’s deployment of an oil rig protected by more than 80 naval vessels in the South China Sea four days after President Barack Obama’s “reassurance trip” to China’s East Asian neighbors in April 2014 was widely seen as a deliberate and calculated provocation. Yet China’s move fits a pattern of advancing territorial claims on its [...]

“America and China’s Dangerous Game of Geopolitical Poker” is Dr. Mohan Malik’s latest article for The National Interest . In it he discusses key reasons for China’s aggressive posturing and outlines major strategic shifts that are occurring in Asia’s geopolitical landscape. According to Malik, “…China is behaving just as other rising powers have behaved in history: it is laying down new markers, drawing new lines in the land, air, water, sand and snow all around its periphery, seeking to expand its territorial and maritime frontiers, forming and reforming institutions, and coercing others to fall in line. For Beijing, history—the Chinese Communist [...]