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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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