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27 December 2011 ~ View Comments

“Chinese Aerospace Power: Evolving Maritime Roles” Featured in Amherst Magazine

Katherine Duke, “Chinese Aerospace Power: Evolving Maritime Roles,” “Short Takes,” Amherst Magazine (Fall 2011): 46.
Chinese Aerospace Power: Evolving Maritime Roles
Edited by Andrew S. Erickson ’01 and Lyle J. Goldstein (China Maritime Studies Institute and the Naval Institute Press)
The fifth book in the series “Studies in Chinese Maritime Development,” this volume evaluates the advances [...]

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26 August 2011 ~ View Comments

Chinese Aerospace Power Recommended by Eleni Ekmektsioglou in The Diplomat

Eleni Ekmektsioglou, “Understanding China,” The Diplomat, 26 August 2011.
… despite the numerous one-off articles, there hasn’t until now been a place in English that brings together all the pieces of the puzzle. That is until the recent publication by the China Maritime Studies Institute of Chinese Aerospace Power: Evolving Maritime Roles. The volume, a collection of essays, [...]

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11 March 2011 ~ View Comments

Uddipan Mukherjee, Centre for Land Warfare Studies, New Delhi: “The Chinese J-20 and its Ramifications”

Uddipan Mukherjee, “The Chinese J-20 and its Ramifications,” Article No. 1751 (New Delhi: Centre for Land Warfare Studies, 2 February 2011).
…The Chinese manoeuvre was obviously intended towards USA. To synchronise the test with Defence Secretary Robert Gates’ visit was too much of a coincidence. …
On top of this, Hu Jintao’s statement that he was kept [...]

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19 April 2008 ~ View Comments

Blocking the Hormuz Strait: China’s Energy Dilemma

Yitzhak Shichor, “Blocking the Hormuz Strait: China’s Energy Dilemma,” Jamestown China Brief, Vol. 8, No. 18, 22 September 2008.
Over the last few weeks Iran has amplified its threats that, if attacked, it would immediately close the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic chokepoint nestled between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard [...]

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21 March 2008 ~ View Comments

Building for the Future: China’s Progress in Space Technology during the Tenth 5-Year Plan and the U.S. Response

Kevin Pollpeter, “Building for the Future: China’s Progress in Space Technology during the Tenth 5-Year Plan and the U.S. Response” (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 21 March 2008).
The Chinese government is using space power to increase its influence at home and abroad and hopes to leverage the political, economic, and military [...]

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