China Debates the Future Security Environment

China Debates the Future Security Environment
Author: Michael Pillsbury
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2012-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781478268956

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The Office of Net Assessment, Department of Defense, is attempted to understand the long-term consequences of the rise of China as a major world power. As part of that effort, it seeks to understand the views of the most important Chinese authors who have analyzed the future security environment.

China Debates the Future Security Environment

China Debates the Future Security Environment
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
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This study's main finding is that for these Chinese authors, the future security environment is remarkably clear, even if some aspects are still subject to debate. Surprisingly, this clear picture is consistent with what Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou Enlai told President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger 25 years ago: namely, a multipolar world was emerging and that four nations threatened China-Russia, India, Japan, and America. Although there is some debate among them, Chinese authors consistently express suspicions about other foreign powers, especially the United States, Japan, and India. As Stanford Professor of Political Science Michel Oksenberg states, China's leaders are naturally suspicious of foreign powers. They believe that foreign leaders tend to be reluctant to welcome China's rise in world affairs and would prefer to delay or obstruct its progress. They fear that many in the outside world would prefer to divide China if given the opportunity. China's leaders retain in their minds a strategic map of the points on their periphery that make them vulnerable to foreign influence.

Rising to the Challenge

Rising to the Challenge
Author: Avery Goldstein
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2005
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780804752183

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This book describes and explains the grand strategy China's leaders have adopted to pursue their country's interests in the international system of the 21st century

Asia-Pacific Security: China's Conditional Multilateralism and Great Power Entente

Asia-Pacific Security: China's Conditional Multilateralism and Great Power Entente
Author: Jing-dong Yuan
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 72
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1428911618

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This monograph provides an analysis of the People's Republic of China's evaluation of multilateralism and its place in Chinese foreign relations in the Asia-Pacific region. In contrast to conventional scholarly wisdom, the author, Dr. Jing-dong Yuan, contends that China is not opposed to multilateral approaches. In fact, Dr. Yuan asserts that China has adopted an approach he dubs "conditional multilateralism." According to Dr. Yuan, China now recognizes that multilateral engagement is unavoidable and indeed can be useful in advancing China's interests. China's embrace of multilateralism, however, varies depending upon the particular forum and specific issue. Furthermore, Dr. Yuan contends China remains leery of entering into arrangements that might constrain its independence and flexibility. This change in China's attitude toward multilateralism is a significant one that has important implications for U.S. national security strategy and for U.S. interests in the Asia-Pacific. The Strategic Studies Institute is pleased to offer this study as a contribution to ongoing analyses and debates over the future roles China will play in the international security environment.

China Debates the Future Security Environment

China Debates the Future Security Environment
Author: Michael Pillsbury
Publisher: National Defense University (NDU)
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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This study offers over 600 selected quotations from the writings of over 200 Chinese authors published from 1994 to 1999. Analysis and interpretation are kept to a minimum so that the Chinese may speak for themselves. Many Chinese scholars assisted with this study by providing hard-to-get books and articles unfamiliar to most Westerners. Half the authors were interviewed in China. They explained some of the viewpoints in recent debates about the future security environment. Debates in China are generally concealed, and frequently authors pretend they do not exist. However muted they may be, China's debates about the future nevertheless exist and merit attention if we are to understand the premises of China's national strategy and set a baseline from which to measure any future change in these premises.

China's Strategic Intentions and Goals

China's Strategic Intentions and Goals
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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Chinese Views of Future Warfare

Chinese Views of Future Warfare
Author: Michael Pillsbury
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 470
Release: 1997-12
Genre: China
ISBN: 9780788146688

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An introduction to the works of authoritative and innovative Chinese authors whose writings focus on the future of the Chinese military. These carefully selected, representative essays make Chinese military thinking more accessible to western readers. It reveals, for example, China's keen interest in the Revolution in military affairs. This volume is an important starting point for understanding China's future military modernization. "Must reading for every executive of every Western firm doing business in China." "Readers will be impressed by China's ambitions in space, information warfare, stealth, and robots, in future warfare." Photos.

Shaping China's Security Environment

Shaping China's Security Environment
Author: Andrew Scobell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2006
Genre: China
ISBN: 9781584872511

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The contributions contained herein address the role of the Chinese military in shaping its country's security environment. Of course, the PLA itself is shaped and molded by both domestic and foreign influences. In the first decade of the 21st century, the PLA is not a central actor in China's foreign policy the way it was just a few decades ago. Nevertheless, the significance of the PLA must be understood. The military remains a player that seeks to play a role and influence China's policy towards such countries and regions as the United States, Japan, the Koreas, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and of course, Taiwan. It is important not to overlook that, in times of crisis or conflict, the role and influence of the PLA rise significantly.

Asia-Pacific Security

Asia-Pacific Security
Author: Jing-dong Yuan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781423552529

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This monograph provides an analysis of the People's Republic of China's evaluation of multilateralism and its place in Chinese foreign relations in the Asia-Pacific region. In contrast to conventional scholarly wisdom, the author, Dr. Jing-dong Yuan, contends that China is not opposed to multilateral approaches. In fact, Dr. Yuan asserts that China has adopted an approach he dubs "conditional multilateralism." According to Dr. Yuan, China now recognizes that multilateral engagement is unavoidable and indeed can be useful in advancing China's interests. China's embrace of multilateralism, however, varies depending upon the particular forum and specific issue. Furthermore, Dr. Yuan contends China remains leery of entering into arrangements that might constrain its independence and flexibility. This change in China's attitude toward multilateralism is a significant one that has important implications for U.S. national security strategy and for U.S. interests in the Asia-Pacific. The Strategic Studies Institute is pleased to offer this study as a contribution to ongoing analyses and debates over the future roles China will play in the international security environment.