Fifth Annual China Defense and Security Conference
The Jamestown Foundation’s Fifth Annual China Defense and Security Conference
Thursday, March 12, 2015
8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.
Location:
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW
The Root Room (2nd Floor)
Washington, DC
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Join The Jamestown Foundation for the 2015 China Defense and Security Conference on March 12, 2015.
Tickets are $65, with all proceeds going to support the Jamestown Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to informing and educating policy makers and the broader community about events and trends in those societies which are strategically or tactically important to the United States and which frequently restrict access to such information.
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8:00–8:30 a.m. | Registration |
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8:30–8:40 | Welcome |
| Glen Howard |
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8:40–10:00 | Panel 1: Recent Developments in the PLA Under Xi Jinping |
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10:00–10:30 | Coffee Break |
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10:30–12:00 p.m. | Panel 2: China’s Evolving Cyber and Electronic Warfare Strategies |
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12:00–12:45 | Luncheon |
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12:45–1:30 | Keynote Remarks |
| Dr. Kurt M. Campbell |
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| Break |
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1:30–3:00 | Panel 3: A Net Assessment of the New Silk Road |
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3:00–3:15 | Coffee Break |
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3:15–4:45 | Panel 4: The Elite Politics of Chinese Foreign Policy |
Registration
8:00–8:30 a.m.
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Welcome
8:30–8:40 a.m.
Glen E. Howard
President, The Jamestown Foundation
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Panel One:
8:40–10:00 a.m.
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PLA UNDER XI JINPING
Moderator:
Abraham M. Denmark (invited)
Senior Vice President for Political and Security Affairs & External Relations, The National Bureau of Asia Research
Presenters:
“PLA Special Operations Forces Organizations, Missions, and Training”
Dennis Blasko
Independent Analyst
“An Overview of Trends in China’s Foreign Military Relations”
Kenneth Allen
Senior China Analyst, Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis
“PLAN Anti-Piracy Activities: Illuminating Prospects for and Limits to Chinese Maritime Expansion”
Austin Strange
Ph.D. Student, Harvard University
“Taiwan’s Emerging Asymmetrical Defense Strategy”
Taiwanese Security Researcher
Taiwan
Q & A
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Coffee Break
10:00–10:30 a.m.
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Panel Two:
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
CHINA’S EVOLVING CYBER AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE STRATEGIES
Moderator:
Dr. James A. Lewis
Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Presenters:
“China’s Cybersecurity Strategy: Political, Economic, and Military Drivers”
Amy Chang
Norman R. Augustine Research Associate in the Technology & National Security Program, Center for a New American Security
“China’s Evolving Network Warfare Strategy”
Joe McReynolds
Research Analyst, Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis
“Chinese Views on the Information ‘Center of Gravity’:
Space, Cyber and Electronic Warfare”
John Costello
Research Analyst, Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis
Q & A
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Luncheon
Lunch is provided
12:00–12:45 p.m.
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Keynote Address:
12:45–1:30 p.m.
Keynote Speaker:
The Honorable Dr. Kurt M. Campbell
CEO, The Asia Group
Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
Q & A
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Break
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Panel Three:
1:30–3:00 p.m.
A NET ASSESSMENT OF THE NEW SILK ROAD
Moderator:
Dr. Aaron Friedberg
Professor, Princeton University
Commentator:
Nadège Rolland
Senior Project Director for Political and Security Affairs, The National Bureau of Asian Research
Presenters:
“Energy and the New Silk Road”
Dr. Erica Downs
Senior Analyst for Asia, Eurasia Group
“The Limits of Power Projection: China and the New Maritime Silk Road”
Morgan Clemens
Research Analyst, Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis
Dr. Raffaello Pantucci (invited)
Director of International Security Studies, Royal United Services Institute
Q & A
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Coffee Break
3:00–3:15 p.m.
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Panel Four
3:15–4:45 p.m.
THE ELITE POLITICS OF CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY
Moderator:
Ambassador Stapleton Roy
Distinguished Scholar and Founding Director Emeritus of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, 1991–1995
Presenters:
“The PLA’s Influence on Xi Jinping’s Foreign Policy Decision-Making”
Dr. Willy Lam
Senior Fellow, Jamestown Foundation
“Chinese Foreign Policymaking in the Xi Jinping Era?”
Christopher Johnson
Senior Adviser and Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Q&A
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Conclusion
4:45 p.m.
