The emerging shape of China’s military reach in SE Asia

A 2,000-meter runway in Ban Keun, situated about 50 kilometers north of the Lao capital of Vientiane, is an unlikely location for US-China great-power rivalry. Yet it may become one of the most revealing markers of China’s strategic ambitions in Southeast Asia. On September 29, China and Laos opened the China-Laos J…

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