China Strengthens Navy to Breakthrough U.S. Siege

How can China prepare itself for the intensifying challenges on its doorstep in the Indo-Pacific region? In what ways can the nation maintain its role as a responsible maritime power? Mr. Zhou Bo, CISS senior fellow and former director of the Center for Security Cooperation in the Office for International Military Cooperation at the Ministry of National Defense, shared his opinions on these points during the Conference on Regional Maritime Security Outlook 2022, which focused on military competition in the Indo-Pacific in the maritime domain. It was hosted by the RSIS Maritime Security Program at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore on January 19, 2022.