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China’s dangerous secrets
Posted By Brahma Chellaney on August 11, 2023 @ 15:15
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[1] tenfold: https://chinapower.csis.org/military-spending/
[2] first overseas military base: https://www.voanews.com/a/china-overseas-military-base/4099717.html
[3] deeply in debt: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-06/djibouti-needed-help-china-had-money-and-now-the-u-s-and-france-are-worried?in_source=embedded-checkout-banner
[4] insisting: https://www.reuters.com/article/china-defence-djibouti-idUSL3N0Y24JL20150511
[5] building: http://ft.com/content/cec4bbb9-8e92-4fc1-85fb-ded826a735c5
[6] leased: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/world/asia/cambodia-china-military-bases.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
[7] similar in size and design: https://www.ft.com/content/cec4bbb9-8e92-4fc1-85fb-ded826a735c5
[8] military logistics: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3229135/chinas-cambodian-navy-base-project-makes-us-wary-fears-it-will-host-aircraft-carrier-are-unfounded
[9] effective control: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/who-lost-the-south-china-sea/
[10] world’s largest dam: https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/China-can-t-just-keep-building-the-world-s-biggest-dam-in-secret
[11] railroad: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-06/24/c_1310026232.htm
[12] highway: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-05/16/c_139949882_2.htm
[13] environmental havoc: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/damming-the-mekong-basin-to-environmental-hell/
[14] most dammed country: https://books.google.co.in/books?id=rP3bBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA234&lpg=PA234&dq=In+addition+to+being+the+world%E2%80%99s+most+dammed+country,+China+is+the+global+leader+in+exporting+dams.+Its+state-run+companies+have+built+or+are+building+more+dams+overseas+than+al
[15] eight more dams: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3039053/chinas-dam-building-programme-must-take-neighbours-account
[16] world’s largest sovereign creditor: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-10-01/china-has-a-debt-problem-other-people-s-debt-new-economy-saturday?sref=iRPGYJiK
[17] confidentiality clause: https://www.rferl.org/a/china-loans-around-the-world/31217468.html
[18] ensnared: https://thehill.com/opinion/international/551337-chinas-debt-trap-diplomac
[19] study: https://www.aiddata.org/how-china-lends
[20] suppress and discredit: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210701-secret-society-what-the-chinese-communist-party-doesn-t-want-you-to-know
[21] almost seven million: https://covid19.who.int/
[22] main hub: https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/China-must-come-clean-on-the-origins-of-COVID-19
[23] furtive violation: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-xi-has-picked-a-border-fight-with-india-that-china-cannot-win/
[24] commitment: https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/12/another-clash-india-china-border-underscores-risks-militarization
[25] status quo: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/13/india-says-china-trying-to-change-status-quo-on-disputed-border
[26] access: https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-data-security-law-ships-ports-court-cases-universities-11638803230?mod=article_inline
[27] narrow window of opportunity: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/05/mcmaster-china-strategy/609088/?utm_source=twitter&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_term=2020-04-17T11%25252525252525253A00%25252525252525253A25&utm_campaign=the-atlantic
[28] demographic: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/chinas-shrinking-population-and-constraints-on-its-future-power/
[29] salami-slicing: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/chinas-global-hybrid-war/