National Security Analyst

Peter Brookes

1 article 2006

Peter Brookes is a Heritage Foundation senior fellow specializing in national security and foreign policy. He is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and a syndicated columnist covering defense and international affairs. He contributed analysis on geopolitical threats to The Weekly Standard.

Back to the Maoist Future

April 17, 2006 · Magazine

AMID FESTERING CONCERNS ABOUT CHINA'S burgeoning global power, Beijing has set its sights on expanding its influence in Africa. In a throwback to the Maoist revolutionary days of the 1960s and '70s, Beijing has once again identified the 53-nation African continent as an area of strategic interest.…