#StrategicSpace
Curious about China's efforts to expand its #StrategicSpace in the South China Sea? Everything will become crystal clear thanks to this video presentation by @becstrating.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZsJ...
Territorialization and the South China Sea
YouTube video by The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)
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December 19, 2024 at 3:38 PM
You’ve heard about island chains, but what about “island clouds”? In his essay, Andrew Erickson masterfully describes China’s maritime #StrategicSpace, beautifully illustrated by Andrew Rhodes and CIGeography.

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Geography Matters, Time Collides: Mapping China’s Maritime Strategic Space under Xi
With an increasingly powerful People’s Republic of China (PRC) under paramount leader Xi Jinping engaging in meteoric military-maritime buildup and pressing disputed sovereignty claims with increasing...
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August 17, 2024 at 10:40 PM
While most of us are glued to Washington, waiting for the next self-destructive move, the space race is raging.

My piece on the importance of Lagrange points:
www.midshipnews.org/blog/the-lag...

#SpaceRace
#StrategicSpace

You can read my thriller Maskirovka here:
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The Lagrange points: The new Space Race. — MIDSHIPNEWS.ORG
In 1957, the Soviets shook the world when they sent Sputnik into orbit. The first artificial satellite was communist! For 22 days, the USA looked at the sky in shame and anger. How could they have b...
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February 2, 2026 at 9:42 AM
China considers the polar regions as "new strategic frontiers" that are included in its #StrategicSpace.
Camilla Sørensen unpacks what this means for access to critical resources, technological advances, and challenging governance rules.
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The Polar Regions as New Strategic Frontiers for China
Over the last two decades, China has significantly expanded its polar agenda and activities. It is a long-term strategic priority for China to establish itself as a legitimate and influential polar st...
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January 29, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Sharing Khyle Eastin's outstanding essay on the evolution of China's strategic thinking about space, which explores both its historical background and recent inclusion in frontier domains. #StrategicSpace
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A Domain of Great Powers: The Strategic Role of Space in Achieving China’s Dream of National Rejuvenation
China’s strategic conception of and engagement with outer space has evolved over time depending on each major leader’s personal ambition for the country as well as the international environment they f...
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May 10, 2024 at 7:01 PM
State Dept Mark Lambert will deliver keynote remarks at NBR's discussion on China’s conception of its #StrategicSpace and implications for great-power competition on September 16 in Washington, D.C. 2pm.
Reserve your spot! www.eventbrite.com/e/mapping-ch...
Mapping China’s Strategic Space
Join NBR for an event on September 16 to hear from experts on China’s changing perceptions of its strategic space.
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September 7, 2024 at 5:48 PM
From integrating the world, to making the world more compatible with China: Nadine Godehardt explores two key features of the PRC's "geopolitical code" that underpin its definition of a global #StrategicSpace: 'discourse power' and 'docking.'
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China’s Geopolitical Code: Shaping the Next World Order
Since Xi Jinping became the general-secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the practices and logics of Chinese foreign policy have changed enormously. China’s ambitions are mostly global to...
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January 29, 2024 at 8:57 PM
When thinking about China-India rivalry, there is a tendency to see it as narrowly focused on boundary disputes, but there is more to it: the two countries are competing for #StrategicSpace, writes Tanvi Madan in this new essay strategicspace.nbr.org/cooperation-...
Cooperation, Coexistence, and Contestation in India’s and China’s Overlapping Strategic Spaces
By dint of their geographies, partnerships, development imperatives, and broader objectives, China and India have had overlapping strategic spaces since India became independent in 1947 and the People...
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September 7, 2024 at 5:37 PM
🧵 An update on the project I've been leading at @nbr.org
on China's #StrategicSpace. We now turn our attention to the #Borderlands, the proximate strategic space Beijing has labeled sanbian 三边 (frontiers 边疆 + borders 边境 + periphery 周边) since 2021.
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Borderlands: An Introduction - Mapping China's Strategic Space
The first phase of the National Bureau of Asian Research’s Mapping China’s Strategic Space project concluded with two possible scenarios for the future of China’s strategic mental map. In the first, t...
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July 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
If you were not able to join us last week, you may find a recording of our discussion unpacking China's conception of its #StrategicSpace here: www.nbr.org/event/mappin...
Mapping China’s Strategic Space | The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)
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September 23, 2024 at 2:27 PM
The most productive hour of your week might be the one where you do "nothing." If you're always executing, you're never navigating. Step back to see the map.
#DeepWork #IntellectualAuthority #StrategicSpace #TheThinkingOperator
May 28, 2026 at 9:02 PM