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Taiwan’s Threat Perceptions: Underestimating China’s Capabilities and Intentions?
The official threat assessments that Taiwan has released in recent years reflect the growing concern over China’s military modernization, which is typically portrayed as part of a broader strategic challenge with potentially serious implications for the island’s security. Moreover, Taiwanese officials assess that the modernization... MORE
Taiwan’s Threat Perceptions: Underestimating China’s Capabilities and Intentions?
The official threat assessments that Taiwan has released in recent years reflect the growing concern over China’s military modernization, which is typically portrayed as part of a broader strategic challenge with potentially serious implications for the island’s security. Moreover, Taiwanese officials assess that the modernization... MORE
The Iraq Energy Factor in Sino-Japanese Relations
Iraq could soon emerge as an important new focal point of intensifying Chinese and Japanese commercial diplomacy and energy rivalry, in spite of their extensive overlapping interests and mutually beneficial economic ties. It is difficult to determine whether friction over energy-related matters is a symptom... MORE
The Iraq Energy Factor in Sino-Japanese Relations
Iraq could soon emerge as an important new focal point of intensifying Chinese and Japanese commercial diplomacy and energy rivalry, in spite of their extensive overlapping interests and mutually beneficial economic ties. It is difficult to determine whether friction over energy-related matters is a symptom... MORE
ROTC with Chinese Characteristics: Training the PLA in Civilian Universities
China is nearly a decade into a program to commission up to half of the new People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers from its finest universities. In the near-term, this initiative will take advantage of civilian institutions of higher education to train large numbers of technologically... MORE
ROTC with Chinese Characteristics: Training the PLA in Civilian Universities
China is nearly a decade into a program to commission up to half of the new People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers from its finest universities. In the near-term, this initiative will take advantage of civilian institutions of higher education to train large numbers of technologically... MORE
Hu’s New Goal: Inspiring the PLA for Victory
Even as China has committed an unprecedented level of resources toward the modernization of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), President Hu Jintao has placed an emphasis on raising the “fighting spirit” and strategic ingenuity of the PLA. President Hu has also sought the views of... MORE
Hu’s New Goal: Inspiring the PLA for Victory
Even as China has committed an unprecedented level of resources toward the modernization of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), President Hu Jintao has placed an emphasis on raising the “fighting spirit” and strategic ingenuity of the PLA. President Hu has also sought the views of... MORE
Anticipating Chinese Leadership Changes at the 17th Party Congress
Just as the U.S. political arena has begun to heat up in an off-election year, so too have Chinese politics become even more dynamic as the country’s political clock winds its way toward the convening of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).... MORE
Anticipating Chinese Leadership Changes at the 17th Party Congress
Just as the U.S. political arena has begun to heat up in an off-election year, so too have Chinese politics become even more dynamic as the country’s political clock winds its way toward the convening of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).... MORE