Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and author of nine books, including "Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India and Japan."
President Xi Jinping, seeking to press China's advantage while its neighbors are distracted by the coronavirus pandemic, has lately opened multiple fronts in his campaign to make China the world's foremost power -- from Hong Kong and Taiwan to the South and East China Seas to the Himalayan frontier.
