Or what if this were 1897, and foreign observers were debating whether the United States entertained conscious plans for a string of pearls? The question may have elicited giggles in 1897—but ...

The annual G20 Summit reminded us that disregarded countries also can be opportunities. As the escalating U.S. trade war with Communist China dominates attention, smaller countries that Americans ...

Subscribe for ads-free reading. Is the “String of Pearls” theory valid? This is a debate which has been ongoing since the term was coined in 2005, when the US consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton ...

The United States and Pakistan are not exactly on the best of terms, ... The more closely one reads these stories, the less clear it is that China wants a string of pearls.

As early as 2004, US political researchers proposed the geopolitical hypothesis "string of pearls" which refers to a so-called "threatening" network of Chinese military and commercial facilities ...

String of pearls: Rising tensions in the South and East China Seas The United States and its allies took a new step towards a dangerous showdown with China rejecting its “maritime empire ...

China’s claiming of controlling stakes in strategic ports along critical shipping lanes – what analysts have taken to referring to as its “string of pearls” – beginning at the Straits of ...

China is now doing the same in West Africa: the 2018 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Beijing Action Plan states that “the African side applauds China’s escort missions in the Gulf of Aden . . . and ...

Strategic Influence: China’s expanding influence in the Indian Ocean region, often associated with the ‘String of Pearls’ strategy, has raised concerns for India.