Andrew S. Erickson

“Sixth Annual China Defense and Security Conference,” sponsored by Jamestown Foundation, to be held at The University Club of Washington, DC, 12 May 2016.

The Jamestown Foundation, publisher of the noted China Brief, is proud to announce that the Sixth Annual China Defense and Security Conference will be held on May 12th. The conference will feature a number of the best China Defense analysts who will be discussing the most pressing issues regarding China’s military modernization and reorganization.

Many of the participants are contributing authors to a forthcoming book from the Jamestown Foundation, China’s Evolving Military Strategy, which will be on sale at the event.

More information about this volume is available here.

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Agenda
 
Registration
8:15–9:00 a.m.
 
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Welcome
9:00–9:05 a.m.
 
Glen E. Howard
President, The Jamestown Foundation
 
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Keynote Address:
9:05–9:40 a.m.
 
Keynote Speaker:
 
The Honorable Dr. Kurt M. Campbell
Chairman and CEO, The Asia Group
Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State
 
Q & A
 
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Panel One:
9:40–11:00 a.m.
 
Key Developments in Chinese Doctrine and Practice
 
“China’s National Military Strategy in the Xi Jinping Era”
Timothy Heath
RAND
 
“Key PLA Activities Since the 18th Party Congress”
Kenneth Allen
DGI
 
“Chinese Military Organizational Realignment”
Dennis Blasko
Independent Analyst
 
“Taiwan’s Perspective on China’s Evolving Military Strategy”
Dr. Alexander Huang

Tamkang University

 
Q & A
 
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Coffee Break
11:00–11:20 a.m.
 
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Panel Two:
11:20 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
 
Strategic Services: Air Force, Navy and Rocket Forces
 
Presenters:

“Chinese Naval Strategy”
Andrew Erickson
USNWC 
 
“Chinese Air Force Strategy”
Cristina Garafola (Invited)
RAND 
 
“Chinese Nuclear and Missile Force Strategy”
Mike Chase (Invited)
RAND
 
Q & A
 
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Luncheon
12:30–1:30 p.m.
 
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Panel Three:
1:30–2:45 p.m.
 
Emerging Roles
 
Presenters:
 
“China’s Space Strategy”
Kevin Pollpeter
CNA
with
Jonathan Ray
DGI
 
“Chinese Network Warfare Strategy”  
Joe McReynolds
DGI
 
“Chinese Electromagnetic Warfare Strategy”
 John Costello
TechCongress
 
Q & A
 
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Coffee Break
2:45–3:00 p.m.
 
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Panel Four:
3:00–4:15 p.m.
 
Political Considerations in Chinese Defense Strategy
 
Moderator: 
Matt Brazil
The Jamestown Foundation
 
“A New Era of Civil-Military Relations”
Dan Alderman
DGI
 
“The Sixth Generation of Party Leadership”
Dr. Willy Lam
The Jamestown Foundation
 
“China’s Intelligence Reorganization”
Peter Mattis
The Jamestown Foundation
 
Q&A
           
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Conclusion 
4:15 p.m.

Participant Biographies
Dan Alderman
 
Daniel Alderman is the Deputy Director of Defense Group Inc. He previously worked for in various capacities at the National Bureau of Asian Research. Mr. Alderman’s research interests include China’s PLA and East Asian security. He co-authored with You Ji the chapter “Changing Civil-Military Relations in China” in The PLA at Home and Abroad: Assessing the Operational Capabilities of China’s Military (2010). He also authored the 2009 PLA Conference Colloquium Brief, “The PLA at Home and Abroad” (2010). Mr. Alderman completed an MA in Asian Studies at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, and was a 2008-09 Boren NSEP fellow in Beijing, where he studied advanced Chinese in the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies at Tsinghua University. Before joining NBR, he studied Chinese language at Guizhou University in Guiyang and at Capitol Normal University in China. He is a 2006 graduate from Presbyterian College, where he majored in Political Science and History.
 
Kenneth Allen
 
Ken Allen is a Senior China Analyst with Defense Group Inc. (DGI), where he focuses on China’s military organizational structure, personnel, education, training, and foreign relations with particular emphasis on the PLA Air Force. During 21 years in the U.S. Air Force (1971-1992), he served as an enlisted Chinese and Russian linguist and intelligence officer with tours in Taiwan, Berlin, Japan, Hawaii, China, and Washington DC. From 1987-1989, he served as the Assistant Air Attaché in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. He was inducted into DIA’s Defense Attaché Hall of Fame in 1997. He has B.A. degrees from the University of California at Davis and the University of Maryland and an M.A. degree from Boston University. He has written numerous monographs, book chapters, and journal articles on the PLA. He has also been a speaker at the first five China Defense and Security Conferences.
 
Dennis J. Blasko
 
Dennis J. Blasko, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired), served 23 years as a Military Intelligence Officer and Foreign Area Officer specializing in China. Mr. Blasko was an army attaché in Beijing from 1992-1995 and in Hong Kong from 1995-1996. He also served in infantry units in Germany, Italy, and Korea and in Washington at the Defense Intelligence Agency, Headquarters Department of the Army (Office of Special Operations), and the National Defense University War Gaming and Simulation Center. Mr. Blasko is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School. He has written numerous articles and chapters on the Chinese military and defense industries and is the author of the book, The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century, second edition (Routledge, 2012).
 
Kurt M. Campbell
 
Kurt M. Campbell is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Asia Group, LLC, a strategic advisory and investment group specializing in the dynamic and fast growing Asia Pacific region. From 2009 to 2013, he served as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, where he is widely credited as being a key architect of the “pivot to Asia.” In this capacity, Dr. Campbell advanced a comprehensive U.S. strategy that took him to every corner of the Asia-Pacific region where he was a tireless advocate for American interests, particularly the promotion of trade and investment. His vision and leadership were essential in the Administration’s efforts to strengthen security alliances and partnerships from Northeast to Southeast Asia and throughout the Indo-Pacific region. Dr. Campbell was a key figure in managing the U.S.-China relationship and overseeing the annual Strategic and Economic Dialogue. In acknowledgement for his contributions in advancing U.S. national interests in Asia, Secretary Clinton awarded him the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award (2013) — the nation’s highest diplomatic honor.
 
Dr. Campbell previously served in several capacities in government, including as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asia and the Pacific, director on the National Security Council Staff, deputy special counselor to the president for NAFTA in the White House, and White House fellow at the Department of the Treasury. Previously, he was the CEO and Co-Founder of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and concurrently served as the director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Washington Quarterly. He received his B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, a Certificate in music and political philosophy from the University of Erevan in Soviet Armenia, and his Doctorate in International Relations from Brasenose College at Oxford University where he was a Distinguished Marshall Scholar.
 
Michael Chase 
 
Michael S. Chase, Ph.D., is a Senior Political Scientist at RAND and an adjunct professor in the China Studies and Strategic Studies Departments at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. A specialist in China and Asia-Pacific security issues, he was previously an Associate Professor at the U.S. Naval War College (NWC) in Newport, Rhode Island, where he served as director of the strategic deterrence group in the Warfare Analysis and Research Department and taught in the Strategy and Policy Department. Prior to joining the faculty at NWC, he was a Research Analyst at Defense Group Inc. and an Associate International Policy Analyst at RAND. He is the author of the book Taiwan’s Security Policy and numerous chapters and articles on China and Asia-Pacific security issues. His current research focuses on Chinese military modernization, China’s nuclear policy and strategy and nuclear force modernization, Taiwan’s defense policy, and Asia-Pacific security issues.
 
John Costello
 
John Costello is Congressional Innovation Fellow for New American Foundation and a former Research Analyst at Defense Group Inc. He was a member of the US Navy and a DOD Analyst. He specializes in information warfare, electronic warfare and non-kinetic counterspace issues.
 
Andrew S. Erickson 
 
Dr. Erickson is Professor of Strategy in, and a core founding member of, the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute. He serves on the Naval War College Review’s Editorial Board. Since 2008 he has been an Associate in Research at Harvard University’s John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Erickson is also an expert contributor to the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2012 the National Bureau of Asian Research awarded Erickson the inaugural Ellis Joffe Prize for PLA Studies. He is the author of the book Chinese Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Development (Jamestown, 2013) and coauthor of two additional books: Gulf of Aden Anti-Piracy and China’s Maritime Commons Presence (Jamestown, 2015), as well as Assessing China’s Cruise Missile Ambitions. He has published extensively in such peer-reviewed journals as China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Asian Security, Asia Policy, Journal of Strategic Studies, and Acta Astronautica. Erickson received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Princeton University and studied Mandarin at Beijing Normal University’s College of Chinese Language and Culture. He can be reached through www.andrewerickson.com.
 
Cristina Garafola
 
Ms. Garafola is a Project Associate-China Specialist at the RAND Corporation. She holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a certificate from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies. Cristina has previously worked at the Department of State, the Department of Treasury, and the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She is fluent in Mandarin.
 
Willy Wo-Lap Lam
 
Dr. Willy Wo-Lap Lam is a Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Center for China Studies, the History Department and the Program of Master’s in Global Political Economy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of six books on China, including Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping. 
 
Timothy R. Heath
 
Timothy R. Heath is Senior International and Defense Analyst at the RAND Corporation and a recognized expert on Chinese strategy and political-military topics. He served for five years as the senior analyst in the United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) China Strategic Focus Group and has over fifteen years of experience in the US government as a specialist on China. Mr. Heath has authored many articles and a book chapter on topics related to Chinese security and political issues. He earned his MA in Asian Studies from George Washington University and speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese. 

Dr. Alexander Chieh-cheng Huang

Dr. Huang is professor at Institute of Strategic Studies of Tamkang University, Founder and Chairman of the Council on Strategic and Wargaming Studies, and Secretary-General of the Council of Advanced Policy Studies in Taiwan. He is also a non-resident senior associate at the Washington DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. Dr. Huang previously served in the ROC (Taiwan) Government as Deputy Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council, and has been working closely with consecutive governments on foreign and security policy matters. Dr. Huang did his graduate studies at School of Foreign Service (MSFS), Georgetown University and Department of Political Science, George Washington University where he received his doctoral degree. Dr. Huang specializes in Asian and Chinese foreign and security affairs.

Peter Mattis
 
Peter Mattis is a Fellow in the China Program at The Jamestown Foundation. He edited Jamestown’s biweekly China Brief from 2011 to 2013. Prior to The Jamestown Foundation, Mr. Mattis worked as an international affairs analyst for the U.S. Government. He received his M.A. in Security Studies from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and earned his B.A. in Political Science and Asian Studies from the University of Washington in Seattle. He also previously worked as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Asian Research in its Strategic Asia and Northeast Asian Studies programs. He is currently researching a book on Chinese intelligence.
 
Joe McReynolds
 
Joe McReynolds is a Research Analyst at Defense Group Inc.’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis. His research interests primarily center on China’s approach to computer network warfare and defense science & technology development. Mr. McReynolds has previously worked with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council for International Policy, and is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Graduate Security Studies programs. He speaks and reads Chinese and Japanese, and has lived and studied in Nagoya, Guilin and Beijing.
 
Kevin Pollpeter 
 
Kevin Pollpeter is a Research Scientist at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA). He previously served as the Deputy Director of the East Asia Program at Defense Group Inc. (DGI) where he managed a group of more than 20 China analysts. He is widely published on China national security issues, with a focus on China’s space program. His most recent publications include, “The PLAAF and the Integration of Air and Space Power,” in Richard P. Hallion, Roger Cliff, and Phillip C. Saunders, The Chinese Air Force: Evolving Concepts, Roles, and Capabilities (NDU, 2012) and “Controlling the Information Domain: Space, Cyber, and Electronic Warfare,” in Ashley J. Tellis and Travis Tanner, Strategic Asia 2012-2013: China’s Military Challenge (NBR: 2012). His other publications include “Upward and Onward: Technological Innovation and Organizational Change in China’s Space Industry” in the Journal of Strategic Studies (June 2011), “China’s Space Doctrine” in Andrew S. Erickson and Lyle J. Goldstein, eds., Chinese Aerospace Power (Naval Institute Press, 2011), as well as numerous articles in China Brief. A Chinese linguist, he holds an M.A. in International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
 
Jonathan Ray
 
Jonathan Ray is a Research Associate at Defense Group Inc. (DGI), where he conducts research and analysis using Chinese-language sources on foreign policy, national security, and science and technology issues. Previously he was a contract researcher at the National Defense University, where he wrote Red China’s “Capitalist Bomb”: Inside the Chinese Neutron Bomb Program.