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…
Topic: East Asian Security
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…
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 This survey of official and quasi-official Chinese-language naval literature provides some new insights regarding Beijing’s evolving strategy in the South China Sea. Most importantly…
Abstract Since the 1995–96 Taiwan Strait crisis, scholars and policymakers have become increasingly concerned about China’s territorial ambitions. Yet China has also used peaceful means…
Abstract Whether China’s rise as a great power will be peaceful or violent is a question that animates scholars and policymakers alike. Power transition theory…
Summary This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the security discourse of Chinese policy elites on the major powers in East Asia in…
Summary This Trends in Southeast Asia series — now revamped and redesigned — acts as a platform for serious analyses written by selected authors who…
