Dr. Christopher Colley, on Chinese Influence in the Pacific Region

Dr. Christopher K. Colley, AWC sinologist, on Chinese Influence in the Pacific Region

Moderator: Maj. Gen. Walter Givhan, (Ret.), ALWAC President.

231 Montgomery St, Montgomery, AL.

Reception at 5:30 pm CT, brief presentation at 6:15 pm, and question time till 7:30 pm.

Webinar via Zoom: login and social time, from 5:45 pm CT. 

Christopher K. Colley serves as Assistant Professor of International Security Studies at the United States Air War College. In 2020-21 he served as Fellow in the Kissinger Institute on China and the US, of the Wilson Center. Colley also served as assistant professor of security studies at the National Defense College of the United Arab Emirates.

He received his PhD in political science from Indiana University Bloomington and holds a master’s from Renmin University of China.

His research is centered on India’s reaction to China in the Indian Ocean region, and in particular, how this impacts New Delhi’s relations with Washington.

Colley has lectured on Chinese politics, foreign policy, and security at numerous universities and organizations, including Indiana University, Renmin University, China Foreign Affairs College, and the Foreign Military Attaché Corp club in Beijing. He has also briefed the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

He has written extensively on Chinese-Indian relations and has published numerous book chapters, reports, and articles on the subject. He lived in China for over a decade and has visited all of China’s political entities multiple times.

He has written, most recently, "Security in Neutrality: Chinese Engagement In the Middle East and the Red Sea Crisis," Middle East Policy, 22 August 2024.