TY  - BOOK
AU  - PASKAL Cleo
TI  - Island-hopping with chinese characteristics: what the prc is doing in the pacific islands, why it matters, and why the time has come to "block and build"
PY  - 2023///
KW  - NATIONAL POWER
KW  - EAST ASIA, CHINA
N2  - China's engagement with western Pacific island nations and its pursuit of influence over their affairs are driven by its conception of comprehensive national power and a need for reliable access from which it might challenge the U.S. military and eventually displace it from the region
ER  -