The Costliest Pearl: China's Struggle for India's Ocean

by Bertil Lintner

The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Not since Admiral Zheng He sailed his fleet through these waters in the fifteenth century -- exploring and mapping them in a bid to extend the Celestial Empire's trading and tributary system -- has China been present here.

Beijing's re-entry into the Indian Ocean after 600 years is part of its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849049963
• ISBN13: 9781849049962
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"