It has been a year since the July 2022 launch of the Maritime Counterinsurgency Project. To date, the project has produced some noteworthy responses.
Chinese experts apparently view the Maritime COIN Project through a similar lens as official U.S. strategic documents. In its coverage of the project launch, the South China Morning Post cited a Beijing-based international law expert who remarked, “Whether it was the USNI’s ‘maritime counter-insurgency project’ or the White House’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, the Americans were clearly studying how semi-military countermeasures could effectively contain a rising and aggressive China, while looking to avoid all-out armed conflict between the two rival powers.” Responding in the Chinese-language edition of the state-run tabloid Global Times, Hu Bo, director of China’s South China Sea Probing Initiative and one of China’s foremost South China Sea scholars, acknowledges the Naval Institute’s independent status but nevertheless urges readers to regard the Maritime COIN Project and its contributors as “representative of the official attitude of the United States.”
Center for Maritime Strategy
Hunter Stires
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It has been a year since the July 2022 launch of the Maritime Counterinsurgency Project. To date, the project has produced some noteworthy responses.
Chinese experts apparently view the Maritime COIN Project through a similar lens as official U.S. strategic documents. In its coverage of the project launch, the South China Morning Post cited a Beijing-based international law expert who remarked, “Whether it was the USNI’s ‘maritime counter-insurgency project’ or the White House’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, the Americans were clearly studying how semi-military countermeasures could effectively contain a rising and aggressive China, while looking to avoid all-out armed conflict between the two rival powers.” Responding in the Chinese-language edition of the state-run tabloid Global Times, Hu Bo, director of China’s South China Sea Probing Initiative and one of China’s foremost South China Sea scholars, acknowledges the Naval Institute’s independent status but nevertheless urges readers to regard the Maritime COIN Project and its contributors as “representative of the official attitude of the United States.”
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Hunter Stires, Non-Resident Senior Fellow