U.S. concern over China’s rapid modernization of its military is revealed in the 2009 National Intelligence Strategy. China’s Ministry of Defense rejects the comments that this poses a threat to the United States and calls them “totally groundless and irresponsible”
From Politicalaffairs.net: When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World by Martin Jacques London, Allen Lane, 2009. “When you’re alone and life is making you lonely, you can always...
NPR has broadcast the last in a seven-part series on China. The final installment looked at the country’s military growth: The evidence of China’s military modernization is ample: double-digit increases for military...
From Foreign Policy In Focus: … In their efforts to secure funding for all these costly new weapons, U.S. military officials – and their allies in Congress and the corporate world – have begun highlighting the China...
In the International Herald Tribune, Howard French writes about a new effort to contain China through coalitions of its neighbors: While never openly espoused by any government, the idea has tempted foreign policy thinkers not...
Henry Rosemont, Jr. writes in the recent issue of Foreign Policy in Focus to argue otherwise: China’s unprecedented industrial growth over the last two decades has raised the question of whether it now poses a threat to the...
From Los Angeles Times, via Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website: During the last two months, as Washington focused on Iraq, few people were paying attention to what was going in the remote Ural Mountains of Russia. There, under the auspices of the benign-sounding Shanghai Cooperation Organization, some 6,000 troops, combat vehicles and planes from […]
From BBC: Ships, aircraft and submarines from four countries begin week-long war games in the Bay of Bengal on 4 September. It is the first flexing of muscles by the newly-formed “Quadrilateral Initiative”, which brings together the US, Japan, India and Australia. Singapore also has a small presence in the exercises. Many analysts see the […]
From Heritage Foundation website: While everyone else in the world, including the Chinese government, says China’s spending on its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is growing by double-digit percentages annually, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has quietly cut its estimate of Chinese defense spending from 4.3 percent of GDP down to 3.8 percent–a drop of about […]
From San Diego Union-Tribune, via Rand Corporation website: Ever since China test-fired ballistic missiles into the ocean near Taiwan in 1995 and 1996, many analysts and commentators have sounded the alarm about the threat of China’s military power. This has been a false alarm until now, but within a decade China could supplant America as […]
From China Confidential blog: EDITOR’S NOTE: The debating society Intelligence Squared US held a session last month on the motion: “Beware the dragon: A booming China spells trouble for America.” Bill Gertz spoke for the motion. Excerpts of his remarks follow. Gertz, 55, is a defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times and […]
From Asia Times: China’s official media have refuted recent reports and official statements in the West that highlight major advances in Chinese military capabilities. Since the January 11 Chinese anti-satellite test that downed one of its own defunct weather satellites, there has been growing coverage and speculation on China’s space weapons, ballistic-missile developments, the new […]
A debate held by Intelligence Squared US, on the topic “Beware the dragon: A booming China spells trouble for America”, is now viewable in full on YouTube. According to Intelligence Squared US, a live audience of about 300 at Asia Society, New York City voted 35% for the motion and 59% against at the conclusion […]
A reaction to the perceived China threat, a new U.S. regulation is to prevent China’s military from acquiring U.S. technology. From Reuters via The Washington Post: The United States is imposing new export controls on high-tech goods ranging from aircraft to space communication systems that could be used by China’s rapidly expanding military, the U.S. […]
In a column in The Washington Post, Gary Schmitt attributes China’s military spending to its “cravings” toward power and recognition. Last month’s annual Pentagon report on the Chinese military took note of Beijing’s sizable expansion of its capabilities — as have all the reports since the Defense Department began producing them in 2000. And, as […]
When the whole world is watching China’s so-called peaceful rise/ÂíåÂπ≥Â¥õ˵∑, China is also becoming the top Asian Arms Spender, more from AP: The United States remained the world’s biggest military spender last year, devoting about $529 billion to arms, while China overtook Japan as Asia’s top arms spender, a Swedish research institute said Monday… China’s […]
A story from International Herald Tribune describes the possible strategies (with an emphasis on deterring potential U.S. military intervention) and consequences of a Chinese military takeover of Taiwan, were it to occur: For almost six decades, U.S. military power has frustrated the ambition of China’s ruling Communist Party to unite Taiwan with the mainland. With […]
From International Herald Tribune: Two years after Donald Rumsfeld bluntly criticized China’s rapid military buildup, Defense Secretary Robert Gates struck a conciliatory tone toward Beijing on Saturday, saying the United States and China have the opportunity to “build trust over time.” In a speech delivered from the same podium where Rumsfeld, his predecessor, said in […]
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