Global military expenditure rose 2.6% last year. The U.S. and China outspend the rest of the world.
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John Demers, Economic Espionage by the People’s Republic of China, Nov. 1, 2018
January 30, 2020
John Demers
Assistant Attorney General for National Security
Washington, DC
Nov. 1, 2018
Burton-Rose on Dai, The White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China, 2019
December 31, 2019
Yingcong Dai. The White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China. seattle University of Washington Press, 2019. 664 pp.
Ronald Reagan, Arms Sales to Taiwan, August 17, 1982
October 22, 2019
President Reagan sent this memo to Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger. The document was classified as secret. It was made public in August 2019 by then National Security Advisor John Bolton.
Christopher Ford, State Department, Huawei and its Siblings, the Chinese Tech Giants: National Security and Foreign Policy Implications, Sept. 11, 2019
September 26, 2019
Dr. Christopher Ford is Assistant Secretary of State, heading the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. He spoke at the State Department.
PRC State Council, Nuclear Safety in China, September 2019
September 3, 2019
China is rapidly expanding its nuclear power generation capacity. The government issued this white paper.
PRC State Council, China’s National Defense in the New Era (新时代的中国国防), July 24, 2019
July 24, 2019
The Information Office of the State Council published this White Paper (白皮书) on Xi Era National Defense in English and Chinese.
U.S. Dept. of Defense, Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2019
May 2, 2019
Congress has mandated that the U.S. Department of Defense prepare and release an annual report on China's military power.
TRA at 40: Shirley Kan discusses the enduring importance of America's Taiwan Relations Act
January 24, 2019
Shirley Kan is an independent specialist in Asian security affairs and a Retired Specialist in Asian Security Affairs for the U.S. Congress at the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS).
Fravel, Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949, Jan. 1, 2019
January 1, 2019
George Carter reviewed M. Taylor Fravel's book for the History of War discussion list. The review is reprinted here via Creative Commons license.
Video: Pedro Loureiro on U.S. Naval Intelligence Assessments Of Prewar China And Japan
November 14, 2018
Pedro Loureiro provides an overview on his digital collection of primary sources highlighting the significant role played by Shanghai in support of the US Navy’s Intelligence process in pre-WWII Asia. This is the first in a lecture series titled "Los Angeles and Shanghai: The USC Nexus," co-organized by the USC East Asian Library and USC US-China Institute.
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