Volume 9 Issue 25 December 16, 2009 China's "Underground Great Wall" and Nuclear Deterrence China’s Rising Profile in International Arms Sales China in the Caribbean: The New Big Brother J-10: The New Cornerstone of Sino-Pakistani Defense Cooperation CCP Party Apparatchiks Gaining at the Expense of Technocrats
Volume 9 Issue 24 December 3, 2009 Sixth-Generation Leaders Promoted to Top Party Positions Priorities and Challenges in China's Naval Deployment in the Horn of Africa Taiwan and the Changing Strategic Balance in the East China Sea Libya Cautions China: Economics Is No Substitute to Politics Hu Jintao Unveils Major Foreign-Policy Initiative
Volume 9 Issue 23 November 19, 2009 The Evolution of Taiwan’s Military Strategy: Convergence and Dissonance Chinese Coast Guard Development: Challenge and Opportunity China's Fifth-Generation Fighters and the Changing Strategic Balance Chinese Analyses of Soviet Failure: The Party The CCP's Disturbing Revival of Maoism
Volume 9 Issue 22 November 4, 2009 Chongqing’s Mafias Expose Grave Woes in China’s Legal Apparatus China's Demographic Imbalances Widen PLA Exercises March Toward Trans-Regional Joint Training China’s 11th Ambassadorial Conference Signals Continuity and Change in Foreign Policy Maritime Multilateralism: China's Strategy for the Indian Ocean
Volume 9 Issue 21 October 22, 2009 The Future of U.S.-Taiwan Defense Cooperation Is Renminbi becoming Asia's Currency and Decoupling from the West? Featured Review: Re-evaluating Chiang Kai-shek Beijing's Diplomatic Offensive: "Marathon Autumn Diplomacy" China’s Persian Gulf Strategy: Israel and a Nuclearizing Iran 2009
Volume 9 Issue 20 October 7, 2009 Jiang Zemin Casts Long Shadow over National Day Parade War Talk: Perceptual Gaps in “Chindia” Relations Obama’s China Trip: Forging Middle Class Ties Xi's European Tour: China's Central-Eastern European Strategy Reaches for New Heights Strategic Implications of Chinese Aid and Investment in Latin America
Volume 9 Issue 19 September 24, 2009 Hu Sends Special Envoy to Pyongyang ahead of Whirldwind Summitry CCP 17th Central Committee Plenum Skips Xi Jinping and Inner-Party Democracy The PRC 60th Anniversary Parade: Equipment on Display, Not Military Capabilities Changes in Beijing’s Approach to Overseas Basing? A Profile of China's Public Gem: China's Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Volume 9 Issue 18 September 10, 2009 Emerging Fault Lines in Sino-Burmese Relations: The Kokang Incident Military Buildup Across the Himalayas: A Shaky Balance PRC's National Day to Showcase China's Rise Sea-change in Japanese Politics Offers Hopes for Better Ties with China The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Disaster Relief
Volume 9 Issue 17 August 20, 2009 Economic Crisis Spurs Chinese Defense-Industrial Reforms Is China a "Soft" Naval Power? China-ASEAN Free Trade Area: A Chinese "Monroe Doctrine" or "Peaceful Rise"? Peace-Mission 2009: A Military Scenario Beyond Central Asia Hu's Anti-Graft Drives Lack Institutional Checks and Reforms
Volume 9 Issue 16 August 5, 2009 Major Restructuring of PLA Military Regions? Xinjiang Crackdown and Changing Perceptions of China in the Islamic World? Strategic Implications of Chinese Fisheries Development Hu Boosts Military Modernization at PLA Anniversary China's Russian Far East
Volume 9 Issue 15 July 23, 2009 Hu Confers Hardliner Top Military Rank The Xinjiang Crisis: A Test for Beijing's Carrot-and-Stick Strategy KMT's Change of Guard: Ma’s Power Play in Taiwanese Politics China Makes Strides in Energy “Go-out” Strategy China-Bangladesh Relations and Potential for Regional Tensions
Volume 9 Issue 14 July 9, 2009 Taiwan's State-Owned Aerospace Firm to Build Aircraft in China: Risks and Opportunities China’s Claims to an Extended Continental Shelf in the East China Sea: Meaning and Implications China’s Re-emergence as an Arms Dealer: The Return of the King? Chinese Perceptions of U.S. Decline and Power The Net Revolution: Chinese Netizens vs. Green Dam
Volume 9 Issue 13 June 24, 2009 A Chinese Turn to Mahan? PLA General Advises Building Bases in the South China Sea Deepening Naval Cooperation between Islamabad and Beijing Chinese ASBM Development: Knowns and Unknowns CCP Campaign for a New Generation of "Red and Expert" Officials
Volume 9 Issue 12 June 12, 2009 Sea of Blood, Year of Friendship: China-North Korean Relations in 2009 China’s SSBN Forces: Transitioning to the Next Generation Sri Lanka: Beijing’s Growing Foothold in the Indian Ocean Beijing Mulling Tougher Tactics Against Pyongyang PLAN Officers to Train on Brazilian Aircraft Carrier
Volume 9 Issue 11 May 27, 2009 Food Security in Africa: China's New Rice Bowl Chinese State-Owned Military Firm Reports Major Increase in Sales International Monetary Reform and the Future of the Renminbi China’s Strategy toward Central America: The Costa Rican Nexus Cross-Strait Matrix: The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement
Volume 9 Issue 10 May 15, 2009 Kuayue-2009: Shifts in PLA Military Planning? Hu Jintao Picks Core Sixth-Generation Leaders The Shanxi Coal Mine Blast and the Failure of Safety Governance in China The U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue: Continuity and Change in Obama’s China Policy The Panda Hugs the Tucano: China’s Relations with Brazil
Volume 9 Issue 9 April 30, 2009 Impeccable Affair and Renewed Rivalry in the South China Sea PLA’s “Absolute Loyalty” to the Party in Doubt Maritime Confrontation Highlights Troubled State of China-U.S. Defense Diplomacy Beijing and Havana: Political Fraternity and Economic Patronage Changxing Shipbuilding Base: Home for China's Future Indigenous Aircraft Carrier?
Volume 9 Issue 8 April 16, 2009 An Assessment of Taiwan's Quadrennial Defense Review Taiwan's Submarine Program: Pipe-Dream or Next Big Thing? Beijing's Calculated Response to NK Missile Launch Turkey Trot: Military Cooperation between Beijing and Ankara Military Parades Demonstrate Chinese Concept of Deterrence
Volume 9 Issue 7 April 2, 2009 Project 048: China's Secret Aircraft Carrier Command? CCPLA: Tightening the CCP's Rule over Law The Death of Constitutional Litigation in China? Chinese Involvement in African Conflict Zones Is a “Win-Win” Relationship in the Cards for China and Mexico?
Volume 9 Issue 6 March 18, 2009 China and the Arctic: The Awakening Snow Dragon China Debates Forex Reserves; Boosts Strategic Petroleum Reserves Mixed Signals from 11th National People's Congress China’s Maturing Relationship with Latin America China's Inroads into East Timor
Volume 9 Issue 5 March 4, 2009 Towing the Party Line on Free Speech The Future of Chinese Deterrence Strategy New Directions in China's Health Sector Reform China’s Palestine Policy China’s Views on NATO Expansion: A Secondary National Interest
Volume 9 Issue 4 February 20, 2009 China-Taiwan: An Intelligence Detente? China and Indonesia: Military-security Ties Fail to Gain Momentum Wang Jiarui’s New Year’s Visit to Pyongyang and China’s New Approach to North Korea Beijing Launches Diplomatic Blitz to Steal Obama's Thunder The Chinese Armed Forces and Non-Traditional Missions: A Growing Tool of Statecraft
Volume 9 Issue 3 February 5, 2009 China's 2008 Defense White Paper: The View from Taiwan China’s Economic Downturn: Employment is The Critical Issue Personnel Changes in PLA Ranks: Chen Xiaogong Beijing’s Carrot-and-Stick Strategy to Deter Social Instability Beijing’s Responses to Falling Oil Prices
Volume 9 Issue 2 January 22, 2009 CCP Provincial Committees' Reports Highlight Growing Wealth and Urban-Rural Inequality Chinese State Media Goes Global: A Great Leap Outward for Chinese Soft Power? Commodity Flux and China’s Africa Strategy Recent Trends in Russo-Chinese Military Relations New Advances in PLA Battlefield Aerospace and ISR
Volume 9 Issue 1 January 12, 2009 Hu Jintao's 'Six-Points' Proposition to Taiwan Future Prospects of China’s Policy on Climate Change Chinese Inroads in DR Congo: A Chinese "Marshall Plan" or Business? China’s Gulf of Aden Expedition and Maritime Cooperation in East Asia China Flaunts Growing Naval Capabilities