Abstract Transparency and accountability are fundamental enablers for arms control and nuclear weapon safety and security. As noted in a United Nations-supported Weapons of Mass…
Country or Region: China
Abstract Tensions surrounding numerous maritime territorial disputes in East Asia have become a pressing challenge for U.S. foreign policymakers. Beginning around 2005-2006, long-disputed waters in…
Continue reading Dolven, Ben, Shirley A. Kan, and Mark E. Manyin
Abstract The relationship between China and Taiwan is more stable in 2009 than it has been in years, but China has nonetheless not renounced its…
Summary Using major new documentary sources, this book tells the story of why and how China built its nuclear submarine flotilla and the impact of…
Abstract China’s economic rise has significant implications for the United States and hence is of major interest to Congress. On the one hand, China is…
Summary Despite its increasingly secure place in the world, the People’s Republic of China remains dissatisfied with its global status. Its growing material power has…
Abstract This paper presents some scenarios that, if they were to come to pass, could result in military conflict with China over the next thirty…
Continue reading Dobbins, James, David C. Gompert, David A. Shlapak, and Andrew Scobell
Abstract The CPC puts a lot of effort into crafting its ideological message, in fact, and this is testified by the network of Party Schools…
Abstract In ‘The Rise of China and its Power Status’, Yan Xuetong aims to correct problems in previous quantitative assessments of China’s power, using a…
Abstract In recent years, China’s power and influence relative to those of other great states have outgrown the expectations of even its own leaders. A…
Abstract The United States worries about China’s rise, but Washington rarely considers how the world looks through Beijing’s eyes. Even when U.S. officials speak sweetly…
Abstract Conventional narratives have largely ignored that, in Chinese eyes, the rich fishing grounds of the East and South China seas are as critical to…
Summary This cogent but comprehensive book examines the international relations of the People’s Republic of China since its founding in 1949. Noted scholar Robert G.…
Abstract Beijing’s purported energy security fears in the South China Sea are often exaggerated, as are both the interests of Asia’s great powers and questions…
Abstract China—U.S. relations turned downward over most of Obama’s first term. As its second term proceeds, however, there are definite opportunities to expand bilateral cooperation…
