Steve Weintz, “Big Sticks: China’s and America’s Global Strike Weapons,” War is Boring, 6 March 2012.
…Today the … United States and China are developing special new conventional missiles, both intermediate- and long-range.
Both Chinese and American approaches change the flight path of the missiles from a purely ballistic trajectory to one where ballistic flight quickly gives […]
Scott C. Truver, “Taking Mines Seriously: Mine Warfare in China’s Near Seas,” Naval War College Review, 65.2 (Spring 2012), 30-66.
A mine is a terrible thing that waits. The easy way is always mined. Any ship can be a minesweeper—once. Sea mines and the need to counter them have been constants for the U.S. Navy since […]
Walter Russell Mead, “Hu Jintao: A Man With A PLAN?” Via Meadia Blog, The American Interest, 24 January 2012.
… Nowhere is the dynamic relationship between the US and China more tense and more intimate than on the high seas, owing, as this WSJ article notes, to the amphibious ambitions accompanying China’s rise…. The authors highlight […]
Steve LeVine, “The Weekly Wrap — Jan. 27, 2012,” The Oil and the Glory (Blog), Foreign Policy, 27 January 2012.
… Iranian heavy crude anyone? Why don’t Russia and China go along with Western oil sanctions against Iran? One reason is that companies from both countries stand to profit handsomely once the crackdown begins, write Gabe Collins […]
Robert Cookson, “China: Digger Sales in the Ditch,” BeyondBrics Blog, Financial Times, 27 January 2012.
How worried should investors be about a slowdown in China? According to the latest GDP statistics, China’s economy expanded 8.9 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year, confounding those who had been predicting a “hard landing” for the country.
But other […]
David C. Gompert and Phillip C. Saunders, Paradox of Power: Sino-American Strategic Restraint in an Age of Vulnerability (Washington, DC: National Defense University, December 2011).
Excerpt from the Executive Summary:
The United States and China each have or will soon have the ability to inflict grave harm upon the other by nuclear attack, attacks on satellites, or […]
Phillip C. Saunders and Joshua K. Wiseman, Buy, Build, or Steal: China’s Quest for Advanced Military Aviation Technologies, China Strategic Perspectives 4 (Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, December 2011).
Executive Summary
Although China continues to lag approximately two decades behind the world’s most sophisticated air forces in terms of its ability to develop and produce fighter […]
This provocative article offers a useful corrective for overly-declinist views of America’s trajectory in the international system, which have been quite fashionable of late in certain quarters.
Michael Beckley, “China’s Century? Why America’s Edge Will Endure,” International Security, 36/3 (Winter 2011/12): 41-78.
Two assumptions dominate current foreign policy debates in the United States and China. First, the […]
Ronald O’Rourke, “China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress,” RL33153, Congressional Research Service, 30 November 2011.
The question of how the United States should respond to China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, has emerged as a key issue in U.S. defense planning. Admiral Michael Mullen, then-Chairman of the […]
Thomas P.M. Barnett, “The New Rules: Worried by China’s Rise? Watch Out for its Decline,” World Politics Review, 19 December 2011.
… Having already sounded my own note of pessimism earlier this year regarding the rampant predictions of China’s never-ending linear growth, it is worth revisiting an excellent blog post from August by China Signpost’s Gabe […]
Another must-read for those who still haven’t read it. Sadly, these issues have not gone away…
Gabriel B. Collins and William S. Murray, “No Oil for the Lamps of China?” Naval War College Review, 61.2 (Spring 2008): 79–95.
The ubiquitous Made in China stickers and labels on consumer products remind us daily of China’s incredible economic rise. The […]
This path-breaking and thought-provoking article, which has already had significant analytical and policy influence, remains as relevant today as when it was published—despite some encouraging developments in cross-Strait relations. I commend it to anyone interested in these important and difficult issues. It merits a very careful read.
William S. Murray, “Revisiting Taiwan’s Defense Strategy,” Naval War […]
John Reed, “Photos Show China’s Carrier Steaming Under Own Power,” Defense Tech, 14 December 2011.
Here’s something we haven’t seen before. China’s first aircraft carrier, the ex-Soviet Varyag, steaming under its own power in the open seas. This satellite photo was taken by the group Digital Globe during the ship’s nearly two week-long cruise that ended […]
This study is as relevant today as when it was published. Many who have not done so already would benefit from reading this thought-provoking piece.
Geoffrey Till, “Asia Rising and the Maritime Decline of the West: A Review of the Issues,” RSIS Working Paper No. 205, 29 July 2010.
The notion that Asia is rising and is […]
Congressman J. Randy Forbes, 4th District of Virginia, “China’s aircraft carrier ‘is not the beginning of the end; it is the end of the beginning,’” 8 December 2011.
U.S. Naval War College professor Andrew Erickson released a new analysis of China’s new aircraft carrier. In the report, he states, “This is not the beginning of the […]
Andrew Scobell, David Lai, and Roy Kamphausen, eds., Chinese Lessons from Other Peoples’ Wars (Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, 2011).
The importance of China stems not only from its current international role and its influence on the Asia-Pacific region in particular, but also because China’s impact on global developments will likely continue […]
Malavika Jain Bambawale and Benjamin K. Sovacool, “China’s Energy Security: The Perspective of Energy Users,” Applied Energy, 88.5 (May 2011): 1949-56.
Abstract
The article explores the energy security concerns faced by China from the point of view of energy users working in government, university, civil society and business sectors. The authors first derive a set of seven […]
Thomas M. Skypek, “China’s Sea-Based Nuclear Deterrent in 2020: Four Alternative Futures for China’s SSBN Fleet,” in A Collection of Papers from the 2010 Nuclear Scholars Initiative (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2010).
This article addresses three major analytical questions: first, what are four alternative force structures for China’s nuclear ballistic missile submarine […]
Martin N. Murphy, “Somali Piracy: Political Lessons for the Navy,” American Foreign Policy Interests, 33.1 (2011): 17-25.
This article argues that the navies operating to suppress piracy off Somalia are operating in what is effectively a policy vacuum. So long as that vacuum persists, piracy may be restricted but not eliminated. The financial cost of the […]
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