Volume 18 Issue 6

Articles from Volume 18 Issue 6

Blinding the Enemy: How the PRC Prepares for Radar Countermeasures

04.09.2018 Zi Yang

Information warfare and information operations constitute the foundation of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) doctrine of winning what it calls “informationized wars (信息化战争).” [1] Electronic...

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Pre-suasion: How the PRC Controls the Message on a Sino-US Trade War

04.09.2018 Matt Schrader

During the past fortnight, a long-simmering trade dispute between the United States and China has burst into open recrimination, with the two sides threatening each...

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Civil-Military Fusion and the PLA’s Pursuit of Dominance in Emerging Technologies

04.09.2018 Lorand Laskai

China is intensifying its nearly two-decade push to meld together the civil and defense economies through what officials term “civil-military fusion” (军民融合). On March 2, 2018,...

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Can China Realize Africa’s Dream of an East-West Transport Link?

04.09.2018 Cobus van Staden

African development hinges on a maddening paradox: its greatest asset—the sheer size and diversity of its landscape—is also the greatest barrier to its development. Landlocked...

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