China’s Quest in the Indian Ocean

Built on land reclaimed from the Indian Ocean and funded with $1.4 billion in Chinese investment, the Colombo Port City project is seen jutting out into the ocean in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Nov. 8, 2018. In order to pay for this development, Sri Lanka was forced to sell strategic assets to Beijing, such as the Hambantota Port. Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

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To make new forays into the Indian Ocean, the Chinese regime has found an alternate route in its new rail line through Burma (also known as Myanmar)—the first to link western China with the Indian Ocean.