The Borderlands research project investigates how China invests in, engages with, and deepens its presence within its land and maritime border neighbors, in an attempt to reshape its immediate periphery.
This section will present a collection of contributions examining the practice of Chinese statecraft in the fourteen countries with which it shares a land border and six countries with which it shares a maritime border. Watch for more contributions to come.
Mapping China’s Borderlands: Dashboard
Research Papers, Commentaries, Q&As, and Podcasts
The project Mapping China’s Strategic Space: Borderlands is led by Nadège Rolland, Distinguished Fellow for China Studies at NBR. The project investigates how China invests
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