China The implications of expanding Chinese global access February 20, 2019 1 Written by Bert Chapman. Section 1259b of the US 2018 defence spending law (Public Law 115-91) directed the US Defense and State Departments to assess the…
China China’s military is poised to become a world class force May 24, 2018 0 Written by Srikanth Kondapalli. The 19th Party Congress guidelines, published in October 2017, envisioned the establishment of joint theatre commands by the 2020 and the People's…
China Ideology in China’s military reform May 18, 2018 1 Written by Juliette Genevaz. China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), that analysts still qualified as a “junkyard army” at the turn of the twenty-first century, transformed…
China China’s growing naval presence in the Indian Ocean May 17, 2018 1 Written by Pradeep Taneja. Since taking power as the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of its Central Military Commission in late…
China Getting it Wrong: Chinese Strategy in the South China Sea May 15, 2018 0 Written by Peter Lorge. One of the abiding criticisms of American military policy in the post-Cold War era is that it lacks a strategy. This…
China Recent U.S. Congressional Committee Hearings on China’s Military May 14, 2018 0 Written by Bert Chapman. U.S. congressional committees play an important role in U.S. government policymaking due to their legislative, oversight, war declaration, and funding authorities…
Australia in East Asia Fake news? China’s base in Vanuatu and what it says about Australia April 17, 2018 0 Written by Michael O'Keefe. Rumour has it that Vanuatu has agreed to a Chinese request to establish a military base. The substance of this rumour…
China The China-Russia security relationship March 12, 2018 0 Written by Paul J. Bolt and Sharyl N. Cross. Russia and China, the world’s two leading authoritarian states, engage in substantive defence and security cooperation.…
China China’s South China Sea Policy and the Implications for US-China Relations September 14, 2017 0 Written by Liselotte Odgaard. In December 2016, a Chinese navy vessel seized a US unmanned underwater drone in the South China Sea near the Philippines. The…
China 2017 Defense Department Report on Chinese Military Power June 22, 2017 1 Written by Bert Chapman. The 2000 National Defense Authorization Act saw Congress direct the Pentagon to prepare an annual report on Chinese military power in…
