在中国地缘政治报告内，芮锐捷博士讨论中国的现行策略 – 是扩张领土还是防御外来威胁？他判定中国正在改变国际地缘政治局势去寻求资源独立。  

'China’s strategic objective in its neighbourhood is to balance US presence, but it is too soon to balance US power. To some extent this has already happened. The US can no longer operate in the western Pacific as it had done unchallenged since 1949. For example, it is inconceivable now that the US would sail a carrier fleet through the Taiwan Straits as it did in 1996 to “teach Beijing a lesson” over Taiwan. Viewed from Beijing, China’s security needs look very different than when viewed from Washington or Canberra.' 

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