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Volume 13 Issue 24

December 5, 2013

• Efforts to Strengthen Sino-Mongolian Relations in Fall 2013
• Philippine Military Modernization More Urgent and Less Likely after Hurricane
• China’s East China Sea ADIZ: Framing Japan to Help Washington Understand
• AirSea Battle and ADIZ: A Reaction to a Reaction
• East China Sea Air Defense Moves: What for and Why Now?
• Critical Node: Taiwan’s Cyber Defense and Chinese Cyber-Espionage

Volume 13 Issue 23

November 22, 2013

• Strike Hard Against Immigration: China’s New Exit-Entry Law
• Firm Warning, Light Consequences: China’s DPRK Policy Upholds Status Quo
• Xi’s Power Grab Towers over Market Reforms
• Third Plenary Session Calls for PLA Reform and Restructuring
• Economic Reform in the Third Plenum: Balancing State and Market
• Taiwan Trade Agreements with Singapore, Japan, Should Calm Fears of PRC Economic Domination
• Chinese Party Meeting Calls for Establishing ‘National Security Council’

Volume 13 Issue 22

November 7, 2013

• Moscow Talks Business, Beijing Answers with Geo-strategy
• Diplomacy Work Forum: Xi Steps Up Efforts to Shape a China-Centered Regional Order
• Tiananmen Attack: Global, Local or Both?
• Mixed Views of China’s “One Size Fits All” Trade Diplomacy in Central Asia
• China-Japan Relations Worsen as Chinese Naval Aviation Flies Through “First Island Chain”
• How to Watch the Third Plenum: Political Issues
• Hunting Season for Multinationals in China?

Volume 13 Issue 21

October 24, 2013

• Beijing Unveils New Strategy for ASEAN–China Relations
• Learning by Doing: PLAN Operational Innovations in the Gulf of Aden
• Chinese Trade-Charm Push Reaches UK and India
• SOE Background of Rising Leaders Threatens Reform
• Soft Power Meets Social Management: New Tourism Law to Punish Unruly Travelers Overseas

Volume 13 Issue 20

October 10, 2013

• The Relevant Organs: Institutional Factors behind China’s Gulf of Aden Deployment
• China Pushes “Silk Road” Regional Trade on Two Fronts
• Political Scandal in Taiwan Good Reason to Focus on Opposition’s Plans
• China and the SCO: Dead Wood but a Good Platform
• Why China Wants the Su-35
• India in the South China Sea: Commercial Motives, Strategic Implications

Volume 13 Issue 19

September 27, 2013

• Li Keqiang, New Type Urbanist
• Chinese Commercial Engagement with Guyana: The Challenges of Physical Presence and Political Change
• Bo’s Arrest was About Politics—But His Verdict May Have Been About Corruption
• Ideological Crackdown Reaches the Strongholds of Reform
• China-U.S. Military Ties on the Upswing

Volume 13 Issue 18

September 12, 2013

• Charting Course for 2014 Elections, Taiwanese Opposition Debates China Policy
• China’s Energy Development in the East China Sea
• China criticizes American action on Syria, but shows little interest in the result
• Russo-China Naval Exercises: Dragging Moscow into China’s Territorial Disputes?
• Legal Reform in China: An Empty Ritual

Volume 13 Issue 17

August 23, 2013

• Discipline Through Paranoia: The Uses of a Crackdown
• A Tale of Two Volunteer Programs: China and Taiwan
• Sino-Mongolian Coal Relationship Continues Downward Spiral in 2013
• The Democratic Progressive Party’s Defense Policy Blue Papers and the Opposition’s Vision for Taiwan’s National Defense
• Army Day Coverage Stresses Winning Battles with “Dream of a Strong Military”

Volume 13 Issue 16

August 9, 2013

• Propaganda as Policy? Explaining the PLA’s “Hawkish Faction” (Part Two)
• Major Country Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics
• “Likonomics” Trumped by Harsh Economic and Political Realities
• Xi’s Mass Line Campaign: Realigning Party Politics to New Realities
• What to Ask at the Third Plenum: Is Xi’s Party Building Sufficient for Reform?

Volume 13 Issue 15

July 25, 2013

• Propaganda, Not Policy: Explaining the PLA’s “Hawkish Faction” (Part One)
• The Spirit of Xu Sanduo: The Influence of China's Favorite Soldier
• New Chinese Thinking on Sino-U.S. Relations?
• New Faces in Xinjiang Signaling a Policy Shift?
• Pushing the “New Type of International Relations” in Latin America

Volume 13 Issue 14

July 12, 2013

• Rectification Campaign to Boost Cadres with “Red DNA”
• Chinese Premier Li’s India Visit: Sifting through the Charm Offensive
• Appraising Xi Jinping’s Politicking
• NATO and Its Limits in the Asia-Pacific
• Exploring the Significance of China’s Membership on the Arctic Council

Volume 13 Issue 13

June 21, 2013

• Beijing’s Aggressive New Foreign Policy and Implications for the South China Sea
• President Aquino’s Second Half: Minimum Credible Defense in Contested Waters?
• Second Thomas Shoal Likely the Next Flashpoint in the South China Sea
• The South China Sea Dispute (Part 2): Friction to Remain the Status Quo

Volume 13 Issue 12

June 7, 2013

• Taiwan Military Reform: Declining Operational Capabilities?
• Taiwan Work Leading Small Group under Xi Jinping
• How China Got There First: Beijing’s Unique Path to ASBM Development and Deployment
• The South China Sea Dispute (Part One): Negative Trends Continue in 2013
• Chinese Dreams: An Ideological Bulwark, Not a Framework for Sino-American Relations

Volume 13 Issue 11

May 23, 2013

• China’s Coexistence Strategy and the Consequences for World Order
• Missile Defense with Chinese Characteristics
• Xinjiang’s April 23 Clash the Worst in Province since July 2009
• China’s Reform Summed Up: Politics, No; Economics, Yes (Sort of...)
• Exploring the International Aspects of China’s Ideological Crackdown

Volume 13 Issue 10

May 9, 2013

• China’s Response to Pentagon Report “Baseless, Counterproductive”
• New Sino-Mongolian Oil Deal Undercuts Russia’s Old Role
• China’s Iraq Oil Strategy Comes Into Sharper Focus
• The “Two Incompatibles” and PLA Self-Assessments of Military Capability
• Binding the Baton: Expanding Police Power, Improving Accountability

Volume 13 Issue 9

April 25, 2013

• Out with the New, In with the Old: Interpreting China’s ‘New Type of International Relations’
• China’s Defense White Paper: A New Conceptual Framework for Security
• China’s Strategic Recalibration in Burma
• The 2013 Defense White Paper in Perspective
• Fierce Debate Erupts over the Meaning of the “China Dream”

Volume 13 Issue 8

April 12, 2013

• Informatization Drives Expanded Scope of Public Security
• System of System Operational Capability: Impact on PLA Transformation
• Beijing Builds its Eurasian Transportation Network
• Counting Z's: The Gradual Expansion of China's Helicopter Force
• Xi Jinping the Moralist: Assessing Continuity versus Innovation in Reform

Volume 13 Issue 7

March 28, 2013

• The Second Artillery Force in the Xi Jinping Era
• Centralized Power Key to Realizing Xi’s “China Dream”
• Policy Reform Measures Highlight Potential for Transformation
• Taming the Five Dragons? China Consolidates its Maritime Law Enforcement Agencies
• South Sea Fleet Exercises Shine Spotlight on Tensions

Volume 13 Issue 6

March 15, 2013

• Sino-Indian Defense Dialogue: A Panacea for the Sino-Indian Security Dilemma?
• System of Systems Operational Capability: Operational Units and Elements
• Is Enough Finally Enough for China and North Korea?
• National People’s Congress Marks Sharp Turn Toward Conservatism
• PLA Deputies Offer Clarifications of Military Intentions

Volume 13 Issue 5

March 4, 2013

• China’s Military Political Commissar System in Comparative Perspective
• China and Laos: An Uneasy Embrace
• Assessing PLA Navy and Air Force Political Commissar Career Paths
• China Channels Billy Mitchell: Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Alters Region’s Military Geography
• Rigorous Training Schedule Highlights PLA’s Focus on People

Volume 13 Issue 4

February 15, 2013

• Radar Incident Obscures Beijing’s Conciliatory Turn toward Japan
• The PLA Prepares for Future Non-Combatant Evacuation Operations
• Shared Threat Perceptions Begin Renewal of Sino-Russian Arms Trade
• Can Xi Jinping Grow Political Power Out of the Barrel of a Gun?
• All the General Secretary’s Men: Xi Jinping’s Inner Circle Revealed

Volume 13 Issue 3

February 1, 2013

• Manila Ups the Ante in the South China Sea
• The Bumpy Path to Sino-Mongolian Cooperation in the Mining Sector
• China and Venezuela: Equity Oil and Political Risk
• How the Southern Weekly Protests Moved the Bar on Press Control
• New Police Chief Shows Reliability But Not Power

Volume 13 Issue 2

January 18, 2013

• Spiraling Surprises in Sino-Japanese Tensions
• Commander-in-Chief Xi Jinping Raises the Bar on PLA “Combat Readiness”
• China and Commercial Aircraft Production: Harder than It Looks
• Sino-Kazakh Ties on a Roll
• China and Central Asia in 2013

Volume 13 Issue 1

January 4, 2013

• China-Uganda Relations: Closer is Not Necessarily Better
• China and Cambodia: With Friends Like These...
• Regional Chief Selections Highlight Continuity in Leadership Development
• What Direction for Legal Reform under Xi Jinping
• Soothing Tones on China's Rise Strike Dissonance