Commentary
Reports emerged starting on Jan. 20 that Iran loaded two of its cargo ships in China with approximately 1,000 tons of sodium perchlorate, a chemical necessary to produce solid rocket propellant.
Thinking About China
Opinion
Iran Getting Close to 5 Nuclear Bombs: US Can Interdict Its Ships Carrying Ballistic Missile Materials
An oil tanker is pictured off the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, which is the main base of Iran's navy and has a strategic position on the Strait of Hormuz, on April 30, 2019. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images
Anders Corr
Author
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).
