Indo-Pacific analyst — Anansi Strategic Intelligence

Reading the region in its own words.

Most American commentary on the Indo-Pacific is filtered through translation, ideology, or wishful thinking. I work the primary sources — Mandarin documents, regional press, official rhetoric across the theater — and tell decision-makers what's actually being said before it shows up in policy.

Shahn Marc Louis / Founder, Anansi Strategic Intelligence / Former State, DoD, and the U.S. Intelligence Community

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As published inThe Boston GlobeWorld Politics ReviewAmerican PurposeThe Lowy InstitutePersuasion

最新[ 01 ] Latest dispatches

What policymakers haven't priced in yet.

Persuasion2026

Beijing Is Winning the Energy Race

China built nearly nine times more energy capacity than the U.S. in 2025 and is industrializing molten salt reactor technology America abandoned. The chip lead may be moot.

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American Purpose2026

North Korea Was Right About Nuclear Weapons

Gaddafi, Saddam, Ukraine. The liberal order's failure to make nuclear weapons unnecessary has made them indispensable — and Pyongyang noticed first.

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American Purpose2026

What Trump and Xi Have in Common

Parallel military and intelligence purges in Washington and Beijing reveal structural similarities the political-systems frame is built to obscure.

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能力[ 02 ] Capabilities

Three lines of analysis. Bilingual, primary-source, decision-grade.

供应链Supply chain

Indo-Pacific supply chain risk

Critical supply chains across the Indo-Pacific — rare earths, semiconductors, clean-energy components, pharmaceuticals — concentrate exposure in a small number of jurisdictions. Most American firms cannot describe their Tier-2 and Tier-3 vulnerability with specificity. I map it using multilingual open-source research across the region and scenario analysis, before a crisis forces the question.

影响力Influence ops

PRC influence operations

Beijing's influence campaigns are broader, more sophisticated, and more patient than Western audiences typically understand. I track them across diaspora networks, academic institutions, and political systems throughout the Indo-Pacific and the United States — identifying the narrative, the mechanics, and the strategic intent: why Beijing needs you to believe it.

印太战略Indo-Pacific strategy

Indo-Pacific strategic competition

The Indo-Pacific is where America's commitments most outrun its capacity. My work tracks the military, economic, and political dimensions of competition across the theater — Taiwan, the Korean peninsula, the South China Sea, alliance architecture, partner-nation dynamics — focused on the gap between what Washington has promised and what it can sustain.

简报The brief

Primary-source analysis. Once a fortnight.

Short reads on what the Indo-Pacific is saying in its own languages, and what they mean for capital, supply chains, and policy. Heaviest on China — where my Mandarin work is — with regular coverage of Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.

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