“Hide your strength and bide your time,” Deng Xiaoping, the transformative Chinese premier, once advised – a maxim that became shorthand for China’s post-Cold War foreign policy. It urged patience, ...

The People's Republic of China doesn't just want influence in the Indo-Pacific - it wants dominance. And it has shown the willingness to use every tool short of open warfare to get there. These ...

The final days of 2025 saw Taiwan surrounded by Chinese warships, aircraft and coast guard vessels in what the Chinese Ministry of Defence described as a serious warning to ‘Taiwan independence’ ...