China’s New Silk Road: a Security Deficit?
Niklas Swanström
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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