China's Long-Term Ambition

What kind of empire is China building?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-kind-of-empire-is-china-building- 

The long game: China’s grand strategy to displace American order
https://www.brookings.edu/essay/the-long-game-chinas-grand-strategy-to-displace-american-order/

China’s Five-Finger Punch

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-xi-resurrects-mao-five-fingers-strategy-by-brahma-chellaney-2020-07

“Tibet is the key to China’s territorial claims in the Himalayan region – and not only because of geography. As long as the Communist Party of China – and especially China's revisionist president, Xi Jinping – holds a monopoly on power, none of the country’s neighbors will be safe”. 

Taiwan temptation keeps US guessing about Xi's true intention
https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Taiwan-temptation-keeps-US-guessing-about-Xi-s-true-intention

India, Like the U.S., Has Grown Impatient with China
https://www.wsj.com/articles/india-china-modi-xi-new-dehli-beijing-11626983609 

China moves swiftly to exploit the void in Afghanistan
https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/China-moves-swiftly-to-exploit-the-void-in-Afghanistan

Related:

China Discovers the Limits of Its Power
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/07/china-australia-america/619544/
Blinken pulls India closer amid challenges in China, Afghanistan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/28/blinken-pulls-india-closer-amid-challenges-china-afghanistan/
Quad to tackle 'most important issues of our time,' Blinken says in India
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Quad-to-tackle-most-important-issues-of-our-time-Blinken-says-in-India

China may be having a harder time with Biden than with Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/27/china-sherman-visit/