Henrietta Levin

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Pekingology · China Was Ready for the Age of Anarchy · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

How China has been working for years over the Xi era to establish Chinese military facilities overseas in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

And in many cases, this hasn't kind of come to fruition.

In some cases, it has in Cambodia and Djibouti.

So, how does that fit into what I think you see as an overall pattern where China wants to avoid the cost?

costs of kind of permanent power projection.

But then at the same time, it seems like

She's ambitions for China's global role have increasingly, I think, remontally moved in that direction.

Well, let's go deeper on why, in your view, this is the moment when China's past mode of international engagement has become unsustainable.

So just to put a finer point on the distinction, so if this is if this is a turning point, it's not that previously China didn't have grand ambitions, often relying on extensive engagement or interference with the broader international scene.

But rather this is a question of whether China wants to actively bear the costs associated with establishing a different kind of international order that's more favorable to its own.

interest on a global basis.

Is that a fair like before-after or how would you define what the pivot is from and to briefly?

And when it comes to the protection of overseas interests, if we expect to see China take a more affirmative role.

or more assertive role, do you expect to see those changes differentiated regionally?

So for example, would you expect this more assertive approach to manifest differently in China's periphery or in comparison, for example, to the Middle East?

Or is this about a question of upholding global commons in a certain way that actually transcends regional boundaries?

If there were to be stability across the country, which seems unlikely under current circumstances, as I mean, you know, the

Countless armed groups are getting their weapons from China just as the military is.

If anything, I think Myanmar is an interesting example because to me it seems like a place where China's always been much more interventionist, like explicitly interventionist in the underlying causes of conflict in a way that they've really tried to avoid in other parts of the world.

But that you know, you you can't find

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