The Importance of Peripheral Diplomacy

World Affairs Issue 8, 2022

With the escalating crisis in Ukraine, the breakdown of relations between the U.S. and its European partners and Russia, the launch of Biden Administration’s Indo-pacific Strategy, and domestic turbulence in some countries, seismic changes not seen since World War II are underway in Eurasia. China’s peripheral diplomacy directly bears the consequences of these changes, and also directly affects the whole development.