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Tag Archives: China
The Chinese Approach: Go
A 2,000-year-old board game holds the key to understanding how the Chinese really think—and U.S. officials had better learn to play if they want to win the real competition….. Go features multiple battles over a wide front, rather than a …
The Pacific Dimension: Sizing the Challenge
The key to understanding any human conflicts in the Pacific is to first recognize both the natural power and size of that Ocean.
The Chinese Science and Technology Challenge
Excerpts from an Interview with Mark Lewis, President, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Willis Young Professor and Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Lewis is the former Chief Scientist of the Air Force under Secretaries James Roche and …
The Chinese Challenge
The ability of the Chinese to accelerate innovation in the air domain is quite impressive. They now have the ability to make major investments with the monies that are available from their economic growth for continued investment in research and development. That growth in the Chinese economy allows for investment in innovation.
Templates for Understanding the Chinese Challenge
A global shift in manufacturing capability towards China, a significant investment by China in global commodities and the enhanced presence of China on the world stage are all significant developments. When married to a growing investment in the development and fielding of military capabilities, something globally significant is afoot, of the sort which suggests changing epochs.
Military Begins To Contemplate The Impact Of America’s Deindustrialization
The U.S. military is starting to consider how China’s economic growth and the corresponding loss of important American high-tech industries might impact future national security. The Project on National Security Reform run by U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, an independent academic group, has put together a “Vision Working Group” that is assessing various future possible military scenarios including how to deal with a more aggressive China if the United States does not have much left of an industrial base.
Military Diplomacy with China
Little progress has been achieved in the military dialogue between the United States and the PRC during the past two decades.
Top Container Ports
Shanghai and Hong Kong are two of the top three container ports in the world.
Top Holders of Foreign Currency Reserves
| 1 |  People’s Republic of China |
$ 2850 (Dec 2010)[2] |