1st Edition
China’s Air Power and Maritime Strategies Towards the Indian Ocean Region
Tables and Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. China’s Grand Military Strategy
2. China’s Military Modernisation: Theory and Practice
3. China’s Air and Naval Capabilities
4. China and the Indian Ocean
5. PLAN’s Basing Strategy in the IOR: The ‘String of Pearls’
6. China’s MSR Asset Accumulations in the IOR
7. PLAN’s Indian Ocean Strategy Under Xi Jinping
8. A Comparison of the PLAAF’s and IAF’s Assets in the Indian Ocean
9. Conclusion
Index
Biography
Joshy M. Paul worked as Research Fellow at the Centre for Airpower Studies (CAPS), New Delhi, India. He holds eighteen years of research-cum-academic experience on Asian Security, East Asian Affairs, Airpower Dynamics and Maritime Security of the Indo-Pacific. Before joining CAPS, he worked as Assistant Professor at the Department of International Studies, Christ University, Bangalore, and also with a premier naval think tank, National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi. He has been an RSIS-MacArthur Associate Visiting Fellow (Singapore) in 2010, NIDS Visiting Research Fellow (Japan) in 2011, and Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow in 2009, 2015 & 2022.
