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China Sold Thailand Submarines That Lack Engines

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China Sold Thailand Submarines That Lack Engines
A Chinese submarine leaves Qingdao Port, in Shandong Province, China, on April 22, 2009. Guang Niu/Pool/Getty Images
Anders Corr
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Thailand is buying submarines that it doesn’t need from China, and China has no engines to put in them. How could this happen?

Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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