While Washington and Beijing’s overheated rhetoric and mutual recriminations amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic are grabbing headlines, equally important is what has been playing out across China’s eastern and southern peripheries over the past several weeks. USSC senior fellow Charles Edel and co-authors Abraham Denmark and Siddharth Mohandas ask "what is China up to?" in this commentary published by War on the Rocks.
Same as it ever was: Chinas pandemic opportunism on its periphery

Commentary by

Dr Charles Edel
Australia Chair and Senior Adviser