Fish and ships: Chinese fishing and Europe’s Indo-Pacific strategy
Beijing instrumentalises its fishing fleet for geopolitical gain, as evidenced by its policy on the South China Sea. Europe cannot be a bystander on the issue.
Experts & Staff
Frédéric Grare
Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
India’s foreign policy, South Asia security issues, Indo-Pacific dynamics, maritime security
Languages
French, English
Biography
Dr. Frédéric Grare is a senior policy fellow with the Asia Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He previously worked at the Center for Analysis, Planning and Strategy (CAPS) of the French Ministry for Europe and External Affairs (MEAE), Paris, where he focused on Indo-Pacific dynamics and Indian Ocean security issues. Prior to joining the French MEAE, he served as the South Asia programme director at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC.
Grare holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and a Habilitation from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Science Po) in Paris. His dissertation focused on Pakistan’s policy in the Afghan conflict. He was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Counselor at the French embassy in Islamabad and Director of the Center for Social Sciences and Humanities in New Delhi. Grare has published extensively on topics related to South Asian security, India’s Foreign Policy, Indo-Pacific dynamics and maritime security. His latest book The Indian Ocean as a New Political and Security Region was published in 2022.
Grare also served as head of the Asia bureau at the directorate for strategic affairs of France’s Ministry of Defence.
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In the media
there is clearly a willingness on the Chinese side to discourage both Taiwan to resist as well as the U.S. to intervene by demonstrating a military superiority and the inevitability of China’s success
Frédéric Grare comments on the publication of a Chinese documentary showing the state of readiness of the Chinese army in the event of an attack on Taiwan
Manisha Reuter and Frédéric Grare on the tensions in the Indian Ocean
No foreign policy is made on the basis of values alone. This is not the first time there has been a tension between interests and values.
Frédéric Grare on the Indian Prime Minister’s participation in the Bastille Day celebrations on 14 July
The EU has developed maritime domain awareness through two lines of effort, said Frederic Grare
Frédéric Grare comments on the range of European forces in the Indo-Pacific
New Delhi and the European capitals may not like each other’s policies, but they need to find a quid pro quo based on their real, not symbolic, interests
In a column, Frédéric Grare comments on a new dynamic in EU-India relations triggered by the war on Ukraine