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China’s New Silk Road: a Security Deficit?

Niklas Swanström

Commentaries and Op-eds September, 2015
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China needs to partner up with the governments of Greater Central Asia to increase stability and security or the New Silk Road initiative will be difficult to implement, writes Niklas Swanström, an internationally renowned expert on Chinese
foreign policy and security in Northeast Asia.

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Keywords

  • Asia Program
  • Regional Security Cooperation in East Asia
  • Stockholm China Center
  • The Belt and Road Initiative

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