The New Cold War at Sea
- Date & time
- –
- Speaker
- Dr Lyle Goldstein, Dr Vitaly Kozyrev
- Host
- Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Department)
- Series
- China Centre Talk
- Location
- Dickson Poon Building, Oxford China Centre - Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor), Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor), Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 6LU, United Kingdom
- Organisation
- Oxford
Topics
About this talk
Book talk: The New Cold War at Sea: Maritime Implications of the China-Russia Quasi-Alliance In early 2025 the Chinese and Russian fleets conducted the third in a series of trilateral naval exercises with Iran. Just prior, the Chinese Coast Guard, operating alongside the Russian Coast Guard, entered the Arctic for the first time. This China-Russia quasi-alliance is reshaping the global naval power balance, challenging US naval supremacy through close and continuing collaboration. Russian assistance has propelled China’s aircraft carrier program, modernized its destroyers and submarines, and delivered world-leading missiles and autonomous vehicles, posing a threat to US allies such as Japan and the Philippines. The maritime implications of this alliance extend beyond the Indo-Pacific, touching all the world’s oceans. The New Cold War at Sea reveals crucial, generally unknown details of China-Russia maritime cooperation, from the Arctic to Southeast Asia, to Africa, and to Latin America. Based on a wealth of underutilized Mandarin and Russian-language sources, authors Lyle J. Goldstein and Vitaly A. Kozyrev provide an objective assessment of Chinese and Russian maritime symbiosis. By presenting unique evidence relating to the naval global balance as well as related policy proposals, the book aims to spark a vital national debate over the future of American maritime strategy in the emergent multipolar world. Lyle Goldstein is a national security specialist focusing on China and Russia. At US Naval War College, he served as director of the China Maritime Studies Institute and earned the Superior Civilian Service Award. He now leads the China Initiative at Brown University and directs Asia studies for Defense Priorities. Vitaly Kozyrev is a USSR-born sinologist, he studied China’s modernization in the 20th century at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. After immigrating to the US in the early 2000s and subsequently becoming a US citizen, Kozyrev has explored the history of US-China-Russia relations, energy security in Eurasia, Russia-China relations, East Asian regionalism, and conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region.
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