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Near-Seas Force Locking Reshapes Gulf of Aden Naval Missions

01.07.2026 Yu-cheng Chen

CNP Part III: Growing CNP Drove Foreign Policy Shift

01.06.2026 Erik R. Quam

New Quality Combat Forces Underpin Military Modernization

12.22.2025 Arran Hope

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Near-Seas Force Locking Reshapes Gulf of Aden Naval Missions

01.07.2026 Yu-cheng Chen

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CNP Part III: Growing CNP Drove Foreign Policy Shift

01.06.2026 Erik R. Quam

Foreign Policy

New Quality Combat Forces Underpin Military Modernization

12.22.2025 Arran Hope

Military & Security

PRC–Venezuela Relations Endure During U.S. Military Operation

12.19.2025 Dennis Yang

Foreign Policy

Reports

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...

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...

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...

Terminal Authority: Assessing the CCP’s Emerging Crisis of Political Succession

07.26.2025 Peace Ajirotutu

CCP

CNP Part II: Seven National Development Strategies

09.26.2025 Erik R. Quam

Foreign Policy

‘Mainlander’ Narratives Dominate Kuomintang Leadership Race

10.04.2025 Peter Mattis

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DeepSeek Use in PRC Military and Public Security Systems

10.27.2025 Sunny Cheung

Military & Security

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.

Battery Statecraft: Green Tech Minerals are a Military Asset

01.08.2026 Tye Graham

Military & Security

Concessions Unlikely as Xi Hosts Western Leaders

12.18.2025 Willy Wo-Lap Lam

Foreign Policy

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Near-Seas Force Locking Reshapes Gulf of Aden Naval Missions

01.07.2026 Yu-cheng Chen

Executive Summary: The 46th and 47th Gulf of Aden escort task groups of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) set consecutive records for deployment length,...

Publication China and the Asia-Pacific

CNP Part III: Growing CNP Drove Foreign Policy Shift

01.06.2026 Erik R. Quam

Executive Summary: Beijing’s pursuit of a more assertive foreign policy in the 2010s followed official assessments that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) had risen...

Publication China

New Quality Combat Forces Underpin Military Modernization

12.22.2025 Arran Hope

Executive Summary: “New quality combat forces,” which refers to the integration of emerging technologies with military capabilities, are increasingly important to Chinese military modernization, according...

Publication China

PRC–Venezuela Relations Endure During U.S. Military Operation

12.19.2025 Dennis Yang

Executive Summary: Beijing’s “all-weather strategic partnership” with Caracas rests on oil-for-loans arrangements, infrastructure projects, and military equipment sales. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has...

Publication China Volume 25 Issue 23

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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 a graduate of the Master of Public Policy Program at Georgetown University.

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Near-Seas Force Locking Reshapes Gulf of Aden Naval Missions

CNP Part III: Growing CNP Drove Foreign Policy Shift

New Quality Combat Forces Underpin Military Modernization

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Near-Seas Force Locking Reshapes Gulf of Aden Naval Missions

CNP Part III: Growing CNP Drove Foreign Policy Shift

New Quality Combat Forces Underpin Military Modernization

PRC–Venezuela Relations Endure During U.S. Military Operation

Reports

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

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

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

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Terminal Authority: Assessing the CCP’s Emerging Crisis of Political Succession

CNP Part II: Seven National Development Strategies

‘Mainlander’ Narratives Dominate Kuomintang Leadership Race

DeepSeek Use in PRC Military and Public Security Systems

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CNP Part III: Growing CNP Drove Foreign Policy Shift

New Quality Combat Forces Underpin Military Modernization

PRC–Venezuela Relations Endure During U.S. Military Operation

China Brief Notes

Battery Statecraft: Green Tech Minerals are a Military Asset

Concessions Unlikely as Xi Hosts Western Leaders

All China Brief

Near-Seas Force Locking Reshapes Gulf of Aden Naval Missions

CNP Part III: Growing CNP Drove Foreign Policy Shift

New Quality Combat Forces Underpin Military Modernization

PRC–Venezuela Relations Endure During U.S. Military Operation

Editorial Team

Arran Hope

Shijie Wang