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Policy Briefs

New Series: CHANGING MILITARY DYNAMICS IN EAST ASIA

Through the Lens of Distance: Understanding and Responding to China’s “Ripples of Capability”
Andrew S. Erickson

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New Perspectives on Assessing the Chinese Defense Economy: 2011 Industry Overview and Policy Briefs (IGCC, Oct. 2011). This collection of policy briefs presents an overview of the Chinese defense economy in 2011, with insights into its current state of development and longer-term trends.

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Policy Brief 18: Toward Greater Pragmatism? China’s Approach to Innovation and Standardization, August 2011

Policy Brief 17: The J-20 Fighter Aircraft and the State of China's Defense Science, Technology, and Innovation Potential. January 2011

Policy Brief 16: The Changing Dynamics Behind China's Rise as a Military Technological Power. December 2010

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The Rise of the Chinese Defense Economy: Innovation Potential, Industrial Performance, and Regional Comparisons (IGCC, Sept. 2010) This collection of policy briefs presents an overview of the Chinese defense economy, with insights into its current state of development and longer-term trends.

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Special Issues

China’s Emergence as a Defense Technological Power, ed. Tai Ming Cheung. Special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies, June 2011.

Books

Gill, Bates. 2010. Rising star: China’s new security diplomacy. Rev. ed. (Brookings Institution).

Cheung, Tai Ming. 2009. Fortifying China: The struggle to build a modern defense economy (Cornell University Press).

Gill, Bates, and Michael Green, eds. 2009. Asia’s new multilateralism: Cooperation, competition, and the search for community (Columbia University Press).

Shirk, Susan. 2007. China: Fragile superpower (Oxford University Press).

Gill, Bates, Fred Bergsten, Nicholas Lardy, and Derek Mitchel. 2006. China: The balance sheet: What the world needs to know now about the emerging superpower (Public Affairs Books).

Miller, H. Lyman. 1996. Science and dissent in post-Mao China: The politics of knowledge (University of Washington Press).

Papers

Cheung, Tai Ming. 2010. Remaking Cinderella: The nature and development of China’s aviation industry. Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Hearing on China’s Emergent Military Aerospace and Commercial Aviation Capabilities, May 20.

Cheung, Tai Ming. 2009. Dragon on the horizon: China's defense industrial renaissance. 
Journal of Strategic Studies 32 (1): 29–66.

Cheung, Tai Ming. 2008. Mianyang-Science at the epicenter: The shaken foundations of Mianyang’s quest to be a dual-use and hi-tech hub. George Mason School of Law National Center for Technology and Law. Science Trade and Technology Program Policy Brief. August.