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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PRC Deploys DeepSeek Across Local Governments
Executive Summary: Beijing has moved to codify its development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in domestic and international settings, including at the Two Sessions and the United Nations. At
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