China’s Posture in Space and its Implications As part of its peaceful rise strategy, China has made resolute investments in the field of science and technology. One major aspect of this technological quest has been its investments... Ajey Lele | July 2008 | Strategic Analysis
China’s Outer Space Activities: Motivations, Goal, and Policy One important feature of China's outer space policy is to carry out cooperation with all countries. In the cooperation, China pays great attention to the rights and demands of developing... Wu Chunsi | July 2008 | Strategic Analysis
China’s Nuclear Perspective: Deterrence Reduction, Nuclear Non-Proleferation, and Disarmament This article offers a Chinese perspective on reducing the threat of nuclear weapons due to nuclear weapons proliferation and its deterrent gestures, long employed since the Cold War. It is... Dingli Shen | July 2008 | Strategic Analysis
The Growth of China’s Navy: Implications for Indian Ocean Security The PLA Navy (PLAN)'s capabilities in key areas (assets, trained personnel, experience) are currently insufficient to support long-range sea lanes of communication (SLOC) defense missions. With sufficient effort, Beijing may... Andrew S. Erickson | July 2008 | Strategic Analysis
Crystal Gazing China A neo-liberal economy, an integrating component of the global village, a Confucian society ruled by a Leninist Party structure, a 21st century economic modernization endeavour cohabiting with an early 20th... V. P. Dutta | July 2008 | Strategic Analysis
Chinese Strategic Thinking on Tibet and the Himalayan Region Dawa Norbu | July 2008 | Strategic Analysis
Karzai Raises the Anti-Taliban Rhetoric Kabul has for long been wary of Pakistan’s idea of negotiating ‘peace’ deals with Taliban militants operating out of its north-western tribal areas. Pakistan’s earlier peace deals in 2004 and... Vishal Chandra | June 30, 2008 | IDSA Comments
China and Taiwan: modus vivendi… for now Encouraging developments on either side of the Taiwan Straits have taken place recently, considerably reducing the ‘shrill atmospherics’ surrounding ‘independence’ and ‘invasion’ by several notches. The primary determinant driving these... Raviprasad Narayanan | June 23, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Can India Say No? Where are India-China relations heading, given repeated Chinese claims in recent years to Indian territory and a noticeable hardening of its position beginning with Sun Yuxi’s statements on Arunachal Pradesh... Abanti Bhattacharya | June 23, 2008 | IDSA Comments
