About the Event

The report analyzes Beijing’s use of diplomatic, military, and economic instruments in the Indo-Pacific region, and then examines how Russia perceives China’s activity in the region. As with all reports in this series, this one defines the Indo-Pacific region as the Area of Responsibility (AOR) of US Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM). Within the AOR, the report examines Chinese activity in the following subregions: Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, Japan/East China Sea, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)/South China Sea, and India.

The first report in this series examined Chinese and Russian influence and interests in the Indo-Pacific region. This report, the second of five in the series, analyzes China’s use of the instruments of power to build its influence and advance its interests in a region it sees as vital to its future. We use a modified version of the DIME framework (diplomatic, informational, military, and economic instruments) here, with the modification being that we do not analyze the information instruments separately. Even in an information environment as controlled as China’s, the state has multiple ways to shape the information space—some official and some unofficial, some acknowledged and others unacknowledged. Given these facts, a separate examination of the information instrument is beyond the scope of this report. Although it does not explicitly analyze the information instrument, the report weaves Beijing’s use of information throughout the narrative.

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Speakers

Robert E. Hamilton: Colonel (Retired) Robert E. Hamilton, PhD, is the Head of Research at the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Eurasia Program. Read More

Christopher Primiano: Christopher B. Primiano is an assistant professor of Political Science at Huntingdon College. Chris is author of China, the UN and Human Rights: Implications for World Politics (Routledge Press). In addition, he has published articles on Chinese and Central Asian international politics in a variety of journals. Read More

Maia Otarashvili:  Maia Otarashvili is the Director of the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Read More

This event was funded by the Russia Strategic Initiative, U.S. European Command. The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Defense or the United States Government.