Summary China’s importance in the Asia-Pacific has been on the rise, raising concerns about competition the United States. The authors examined the reactions of six…
Country or Region: China
Abstract The United States has been the most powerful state on the planet for many decades and has deployed robust military forces in the Asia-Pacific…
Summary China is rightly considered an emerging power in world affairs as Chinese leaders, backed by growing economic and military strength, engage in innovative diplomatic…
Summary This volume addresses how the leadership of China and the PLA view what size of PLA best meets China’s requirements. Among other things, this…
Abstract The rise of China will likely be the most important international relations story of the twenty-first century, but it remains unclear whether that story…
Abstract What is likely to be the future character of the relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China? Will it be…
Summary As China emerges as an international economic and military power, the world waits to see how the nation will assert itself globally. Yet, as…
Abstract In the post-Cold War strategic environment, Beijing could plausibly have opted for Soviet-style geostrategic competition with Washington, but it has not. Chinese leaders have…
Abstract According to the Department of Defense, if supported by “a sophisticated command-and-control system,” e.g., accurate real-time target data, from China’s growing family of terrestrial…
Summary China shares borders with 20 neighboring countries–more than any other country in the world, by a factor of two. Each of the neighbors has…
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Summary Less than a decade ago, China’s air force was an antiquated service equipped almost exclusively with weapons based on 1950s-era Soviet designs and operated…
Summary Nobody approaches the objectivity and precision of Bush and O’Hanlon when it comes to analysis of the military and political dimensions of the Taiwan…
Summary The Chinese Army Today is a comprehensive study of the Chinese military, examining its ground forces in a level of detail not found in…
Abstract After exploding its first nuclear device in 1964, China did not develop sufficient forces or doctrine to overcome its vulnerability to a first strike…
Abstract This article analyses the positive and negative aspects of the Chinese U-shaped line (maritime boundary) in the South China Sea as well as certain…
