Aaron MacLean appears on the School of War podcast with Nadège Rolland—distinguished fellow of China studies at the National Bureau of Asian Research and principal investigator of the Mapping China’s Borderlands project—to discuss China’s evolving perspectives on its frontiers.
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Black smoke rises from the area of Gazprom Neft’s Moscow oil refinery on the southeastern outskirts of Moscow on June 18, 2026. (Getty Images)