freebeacon
Bill Gertz
September 11, 2018 5:00 am
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https://freebeacon.com/national-security/pla-expanding-power-belt-road-initiative/China's military is a key player in the Belt and Road economic initiative around the world that is being used to expand Beijing's overall global power, a senior Pentagon Asian affairs official says.
Separately, the Pentagon is working with Taiwan's government to bolster the island's air defenses in the face of growing missile and aircraft threats from China, said Randall G. Schriver, assistant defense secretary for Asian and Pacific security affairs.
Schriver said in an interview that expanding Chinese military bases and access to foreign ports around the world is a key feature of Beijing's Belt and Road global infrastructure development initiative.
