Geopolitics of China: A Camouflaged Sea Power - Tapa blanda

Geography is often over looked in Foreign Policy, but its deterministic factor in remapping of nations and resource control that has elevated its role to date. Defining trade routes through geography has led nations like China to rethink their maritime policy established to forbid sea faring. With new threats of insecurity like piracy, natural disasters and the quest for abundance of resources, China ought to redefine its policy towards maritime strategy. Often terms as a land power due to its land mass, population and thirteen bordering nations, China has re-emerge to be noticed by former sea powers especially in the western hemisphere. Will China finally accept to be only viewed as a sea power or will it embrace both titles and become a leader in the region?

Margaret Achieng is a International Relations profession, with a foreign policy. As a policy analyst, she uses geopolitics to analyze foreign policy decision making process and how it influences the current world crises and favorable tranformative solutions.She has a Masters Degree from China Foreign Affairs University in International Relations.