Lea Thome

Lea Thome is the Schwarzman Fellow at the Wilson Center, affiliated with the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States. She holds a master’s degree in Global Affairs as a Schwarzman Scholar from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. She specializes in China’s maritime expansion through ports and bases.

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Articles by Lea Thome

Georgia’s Anaklia Port and PRC Infrastructure Strategy

Executive Summary: The acquisition of a 49 percent stake in a Georgian port by a state-backed consortium advances the PRC’s global port strategy—the PRC currently owns stakes in over 90

Media Appearances

Jamestown Senior Fellow Olevs Nikers Interviewed by TVP World on State of Russian-Finnish Border

Jamestown Foundation Senior Fellow Olevs Nikers was interviewed by TVP World regarding the current state of affairs along Finland’s border with Russia. MORE

Books and Reports

The Prize: Why Taiwan and its Place in the Global Semiconductor Supply Chain Matter to the United States

Taiwan has always played a vital role in strategic thinking on the defense of Japan and of the U.S.’s position in the western Pacific. As part of the “first island chain” that circles the Chinese coast, Taiwan would be geopolitically priceless to Beijing if under its control. Such a... MORE