Will China’s naval base cause friction with the US?
Djibouti’s recent decision to host a Chinese naval facility caught many Western analysts flat-footed, showing how difficult it can be to predict the behaviour of wily autocratic regimes like that of President Ismail Omar Guelleh – or, for that matter, the government in Beijing. China chose this small country on…
Andrew is a Research Fellow in the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he specializes in international security.