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Building a Strong Informatized Strategic Missile Force: An Overview of the Second Artillery Force with a Focus on Training in 2014

This report analyzes the training and personnel recruitment of the People’s Liberation Army Second Artillery Force (PLASAF), China’s main strategic deterrent force. While there has...

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PLA Air Force, Naval Aviation, and Army Aviation Aviator Recruitment, Education, and Training

This report provides an overview of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) aviation branch’s aviator recruitment, education, and training. Although the focus of the...

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Six Years at Sea… And Counting: Gulf of Aden Anti-Piracy and China’s Maritime Commons Presence

Now Available from the Jamestown Store Well over six years of Chinese anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden have directly supported People's Liberation Army Navy...

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All China Brief

The PRC’s Expanding Arms Control Agenda

12.11.2025 Sabine Mokry

Executive Summary: The State Council has published a new arms control white paper that expands its arms-control agenda to include outer space, cyberspace, artificial intelligence,...

Publication China
Military & Security

Internet Censorship Tools Exported Along Belt and Road

12.06.2025 Athena Tong

Executive Summary: Over 600-gigabytes of leaked documents illuminate the connections between the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) Mesa Laboratory and the firm Geedge Networks. The...

Foreign Policy

Beijing Dance Academy Dances to the Tune of Zhongnanhai

12.06.2025 Frank Tian Xie

Executive Summary: The Beijing Dance Academy (BDA), China’s leading dance institution, operates as a state-owned entity deeply entwined with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), receiving...

Foreign Policy

China Brief Notes

China Brief Notes offers short-form, incisive articles responding to a new event, law, speech, tifa (提法), or other development in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that is of strategic interest to policymakers across the world.

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Arran Hope

Editor, China Brief

Arran Hope is the editor of China Brief at The Jamestown Foundation, where he also has responsibility for additional China-related publications and programming. His writings analyzing political developments in the…

Shijie Wang

Deputy Editor, China Brief

Shijie Wang is a Deputy Editor for China Brief. He is graduated from the Master of Public Policy Program at Georgetown University.

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