China's rapid development is reshaping the world in all dimensions. Chinese language open sources offer insights into these critical trends. While such materials are increasing constantly in number, diversity, and sophistication, only a fraction is available in English. The analyses available here, many based on sources not previously considered outside China, are designed to help bridge that gap--and thereby increase understanding of the most dynamic great power in the international system today.
Andrew S. Erickson, “Taiwan: The Stakes,” Keynote Address at Defense Innovation Days; organized by SENEDIA, The Alliance for Defense Tech, Talent, and Innovation; Newport, Rhode Island, 28 August 2024.
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SENEDIA Defense Innovation Days 2024 Keynote Address – Foreign Challenges by Dr. Andrew Erickson, Naval War College, China Maritime Studies Institute […]
Big news! Dr. Peter Alan Dutton, J.D., has just joined Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center as a Senior Research Scholar in Law and a Senior Fellow. This follows twenty-three years of superlative leadership, scholarship, teaching, and other academic and policy contributions at the U.S. Naval War College. His new bio is appended immediately […]
Space Threat Fact Sheet (Washington, DC: Headquarters Space Force Intelligence, 29 April 2024).
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The access to and use of space is of vital national interest. Intensifying strategic competition presents a serious threat to U.S. national security interests in, from, and to space. China and […]
Andrew S. Erickson, “Essence of Distinction: The Ends, Ways, and Means of China’s Military Maritime Quest,” Frontiers in Political Science, 6:1448241 (11 September 2024).
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Essence of distinction: the ends, ways, and means of China’s military maritime quest
Andrew S. Erickson1,2*
1 Naval War College, Newport, RI, United States
2 Fairbank Center for Chinese […]
Liu Lijiao and Jia Benjia, “Building a World-Class Navy in a Comprehensive Way: Its Logic in Theory, History, and Practice,” CMSI Translation 6 (Newport, RI: Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute, 11 September 2024).
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From CMSI Director CAPT Christopher H. Sharman, USN (Ret.):
China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI) Friends and […]
J. Michael Dahm, One Force, Two Force, Red Force, Blue Force: PLA Navy Blue Force Development for Realistic Combat Training, China Maritime Report 41 (Newport, RI: Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute, September 2024).
From CMSI Director Christopher Sharman:
China’s maritime blue force is a key component of a broader training campaign focused on building and refining the PLA Navy […]
This periodically-updated Library of Congress report is indispensable for policy-makers and analysts alike!
Ronald O’Rourke, U.S.-China Strategic Competition in South and East China Seas: Implications for U.S. Interests—Background and Issues for Congress, R42784 (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 26 August 2024).
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Ryan D. Martinson, “On the PLAN’s ‘Core Operational Capabilities’,” CMSI Note 9 (Newport, RI: Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute, 22 August 2024).
From CMSI Director Christopher Sharman:
If you read one document about China’s Navy today, read the attached China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI) Note #9. CMSI Note #9 is also posted to the CMSI […]
Edward Francis, Jennifer Chang, and Ken Allen, The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Type 23 Military Ribbons: Turning Chicken Ribs into Chicken Drumsticks (Vienna, VA: Exovera, 15 August 2024).
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This report analyzes the PLA’s new “Type 23” military ribbon system, implemented in January, 2023. This comprehensive study examines how the revamped system […]
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Coercive annexation of Taiwan by the People’s Republic of China would unleash globally destructive consequences, Rice Baker Institute report says
A new paper from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy argues that an annexation […]
Yu Yunxian and Zhang Pengxuan, “Strengthen National Defense Mobilization and Reserve Force Construction,” CMSI Translation 5 (Newport, RI: Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute, 14 August 2024).
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From CMSI Director CAPT Christopher H. Sharman, USN (Ret.):
China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI) Friends and Colleagues –
The authors of this article work […]
“PRESS RELEASE—Dr. Andrew Erickson Awarded Navy Superior Civilian Service Medal,” Jamestown Foundation, 13 August 2024.
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Naval War College President Rear Admiral Peter A. Garvin Presents the Navy Superior Civilian Service Medal to Professor Andrew S. Erickson, July 29, 2024
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See matrix appended below detailing all 46 Task Force deployments to date!
Dennis J. Blasko, “Recent Changes in the PLA Navy’s Gulf of Aden Deployment Pattern,” CMSI Note 8 (Newport, RI: Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute, 13 August 2024).
From CMSI Director Christopher Sharman:
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) may be changing its operational deployment patterns […]
Conor M. Kennedy, Onboard Political Control—The Ship Political Commissar in Chinese Merchant Shipping, China Maritime Report 40 (Newport, RI: Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute, August 2024).
From CMSI Director Christopher Sharman:
China Maritime Watchers: The tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) extend well beyond China’s borders!
If you work within the shipping industry, at ports, […]
Growing Chinese Threat Makes Taiwan World’s Most Dangerous Flashpoint, Defense Analysts Warn
Stronger U.S. deterrence urged; for key ally, ‘situation could scarcely more urgent’
By Bill Gertz – The Washington Times
The growing threat of a Chinese military attack makes Taiwan one of the most dangerous global flash points for years to come, according to a think tank report.
The report details military […]
Tiffany A. Tat, “PLA Navy Reserve: Out of the Shadows and into the Forefront?” CMSI Note 7 (Newport, RI: Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute, 5 August 2024).
From CMSI Director Christopher Sharman:
China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI) Friends and Colleagues –
A few days ago, the PLA celebrated “PLA Day” – a military holiday commemorating the […]
Honored to contribute to Nadège Rolland’s insightful National Bureau of Asian Research Strategic Space series!
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Given the consequences for American interests, Taiwan’s fall would be a catastrophic defeat from which America could neither fully retreat nor readily recover. In this new report, we explain the stakes, the urgency, and what to do now. Come for the bulletized Executive Summary, stay for the 168 pages of analysis, including 5 appendices—all backed […]
Daniel Clayton Rice, “Sharpening the Sword: Chinese Navy Aircraft Carrier Battle Group Defense Zones,” CMSI Note 6 (Newport, RI: Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute, 16 July 2024).
From CMSI Director Christopher Sharman:
China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI) Friends and Colleagues –
CMSI is pleased to provide you with CMSI Note #6. This CMSI Note details Chinese Central Television-7 (the CCTV Defense and Military […]
Chinese Undersea Warfare: Development, Capabilities, Trends
Maritime Gray Zone Operations: Challenges and Countermeasures in the Indo-Pacific
Oxford Bibliography: “The People’s Liberation Army (PLA)”
China’s Climate Cooperation Smokescreen: A Roadmap for Seeing Through the Trap and Countering with Competition
Large-Scale Amphibious Warfare in Chinese Military Strategy
Rebalancing U.S. Forces: Basing and Forward Presence in the Asia-Pacific
China’s Near Seas Combat Capabilities
Chinese Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) Development: Drivers, Trajectories and Strategic Implications
Asia’s Rising Energy and Resource Nationalism: Implications for the United States, China, and the Asia-Pacific Region
Chinese Aerospace Power: Evolving Maritime Roles
China’s S-Curve Trajectory: Structural Factors Will Likely Slow the Growth of China’s Economy and Comprehensive National Power
China, the United States, and 21st-Century Sea Power: Defining a Maritime Security Partnership
China Goes to Sea: Maritime Transformation in Comparative Historical Perspective
China’s Energy Strategy: The Impact on Bejing’s Maritime Policies
China’s Future Nuclear Submarine Force
Chinese Mine Warfare: A PLA Navy 'Assassin’s Mace' Capability
China’s Nuclear Force Modernization
