CMSI Quarterly Review
The China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI) Quarterly serves as a comprehensive update on CMSI’s latest work. Each edition features recent CMSI publications, research in external journals, media coverage of CMSI scholars, highlights from the Institute’s educational and outreach activities, and a preview of upcoming events. Additional editions showcase legacy translations available in a collected volume. Published under the auspices of the U.S. Naval War College and the Department of the Navy, the Quarterly reflects the diverse insights of its authors and does not necessarily represent the views of the Department or the U.S. Naval War College.
Current Volume: Volume 1 (2025) Maritime Geopolitics of the Belt and Road Initiative
This volume features eight translated articles examining China’s expanding interests beyond the western Pacific and the strategies it is developing to protect them—particularly along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road corridors. President Xi Jinping first announced the overland Silk Road Economic Belt and the Maritime Silk Road during an official visit to Indonesia in 2013. Initially referred to as One Belt, One Road (OBOR), the initiative was later rebranded as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Full Issue
Volume One Full Issue
China Maritime Studies Institute
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
China Maritime Studies Institute
From the Director
From the Director
China Maritime Studies Institute
Articles
CMSI Archive Translation: A Summary of Chinese Research on the Construction of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road
Tan S. Yao [谭瑶]
CMSI Archive Translation: Strategic Strongpoints along the “Belt and Road” and Building Military Diplomacy
Liu Lin [刘琳}
CMSI Archive Translation: Making and Breaking the Status Quo: China’s Overseas Strategic Support Points
Hu Zhongjian [胡中建]
