The type 052D guided-missile destroyer Taiyuan of the Chinese navy participates in a naval parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the navy's founding, in the waters near Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong Province, on April 23, 2019. Mark Schiefelbein/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
Three of China’s naval ships sailed near Papua New Guinea and then as close as 150 nautical miles east of Sydney.
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).