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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Articles by Richard A. Bitzinger
China and Commercial Aircraft Production: Harder than It Looks
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 against one of the world’s
Is China Leading the Rebirth of Asia’s Commercial Aircraft Industry?
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. According to the Chinese media,
China’s Re-emergence as an Arms Dealer: The Return of the King?
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. In fact, in 2007 it
China’s “Revolution in Military Affairs”: Rhetoric Versus Reality
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,” to what many foreign observers
THE PRC’S DEFENSE INDUSTRY: REFORM WITHOUT IMPROVEMENT
China possesses one of the oldest, largest, and most diversified military-industrial complexes in the developing world: an agglomeration of around 1,000 enterprises employing some three million workers, including 300,000-plus engineers
CIVIL-MILITARY INTEGRATION AND CHINESE MILITARY MODERNIZATION
Civil-military integration (CMI) is the process of combining the defense and civilian industrial bases so that common technologies, manufacturing processes and equipment, personnel, and facilities can be used to meet
A Prisoner’s Dilemma: The Eu’s China Arms Embargo
In April, the European Union (EU) dodged a bullet by refusing to take up the issue of overturning its 15-year-old ban on selling arms to China. Supporters of lifting the