Richard A. Bitzinger

Richard A. Bitzinger is Senior Fellow with the Military Transformations Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. Formerly with the RAND Corp. and the Defence Budget Project, he has been writing on Asian aerospace and defence issues for more than 20 years.

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China and Commercial Aircraft Production: Harder than It Looks

01.18.2013 Richard A. Bitzinger

No one can ever accuse China of thinking small. When it decided to enter into commercial aircraft manufacturing, it knew that it was going up...

Publication China Brief China

Domestic/Social

Is China Leading the Rebirth of Asia’s Commercial Aircraft Industry?

04.29.2010 Richard A. Bitzinger

China may, by the end of the year, start deliveries of the ARJ-21 Xiangfeng (Soaring Phoneix), its first indigenously designed and developed commercial regional jet....

Publication China Brief China and the Asia-Pacific

Economics

China’s Re-emergence as an Arms Dealer: The Return of the King?

07.09.2009 Richard A. Bitzinger

China is now, on average, the world’s fifth largest arms exporter, after the traditional leading suppliers: the United States, Russia, France, and the United Kingdom. ...

Publication China Brief China and the Asia-Pacific

China’s “Revolution in Military Affairs”: Rhetoric Versus Reality

02.29.2008 Richard A. Bitzinger

China is currently engaged in a determined effort to transform its military from an army based on Mao Zedong’s principles of mass-oriented, infantry-heavy “People’s War,”...

Publication China Brief

Military & Security