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USCI’s Collection of Military Affairs Materials
Drawn from a variety of open sources, this collection focuses on strategic and security issues. USCI video presentations are listed at the bottom.
November 3, 2021
Military And Security Developments Involving The People’s Republic Of China
Published each year the US Department of Defense as mandated by Congress in 2000. The report is to “in both classified and unclassified form, on military and security developments involving the People’s Republic of China. The reports address the current and probable future course of military -technological development of the People’s Liberation Army and the tenets and probable development of Chinese security strategy and military strategy, and of the military organizations and operational concepts supporting such development over the next 20 years. The reports also address United States-China engagement and cooperation on security matters during the period covered by the report, including through United States-China military-to -military contacts, and the United States strategy for such engagement and cooperation in the future.”
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Congressional Research Service Reports
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) works exclusively for the United States Congress, providing policy and legal analysis to committees and Members of both the House and Senate, regardless of party affiliation. CRS is a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress.
Click here for a list of the reports.
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission was created by the United States Congress in October 2000 to monitor, investigate, and submit to Congress an annual report on the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.
Click here for a list of the reports.
PRC State Council
China's Policies On Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation, 2017 (中国的亚太安全合作政策)
China's Military Strategy in 2015
China’s National Defense - 2019 | 2010 (pub. 2011) | 2008 (pub. 2009) | 2004 | 2002 | 1998
Republic of China (Taiwan)
National Defense Report - 2015 | 2013 | 2011 | 2008 | 2006 | 2004 | 2002 | 2000 | 1998 | 1996 | 1993-1994 | 1992
Quadrennial Defense Review - 2017 | 2013 | 2009
USCI Video Presentations
Security
Mary Beth Long, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Strategic Considerations in US Policy toward China (China Card conference), 2016
Phillip Saunders, Director of the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs at the Institute for National Strategic Studies
Strategic Issues: Myths, Worries, and Choices (China Card conference), 2016
Andrew Scobell, senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation
Andrew Scobell and Tai Ming Chueng
The Remaking of the PLA, 2015
Andrew Yang, former ROC Minister of Defense
Andrew Scobell
Bates Gill, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Territorial Disputes
Fu Kuen-chen, Dean of Xiamen University's South China Sea Institute
Kal Raustiala, Director of the UCLA Ronald Burkle Center for International Relations
Yang Cuibai, Director of the International Policy and Legal Research Center at Sichuan University
Daniel Lynch, USC professor of International Relations
Tom Hollihan and Patricia Riley, USC Annenberg professors
Zhan Zhang, USCI visiting scholar
David M. Lampton, Director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Security/Regional Disputes (Tinted Lens conference), 2013
Tom Hollihan
June Teufel Dreyer, University of Miami
Security/Regional Disputes (Tinted Lens conference), 2013
Minxin Pei, Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College
Security/Regional Disputes (Tinted Lens conference), 2013
Featured Articles
May 13, 2022
European views toward China are not uniform. Europeans recognize China's economic prowess and clearly favor continued ties, but majorities in much of Europe now have a negative view towards China.
Events
Thursday, May 5, 2022 - 4:00pm PDT
Tensions evident in the recent European Union-China virtual summit reflect the increasing skepticism in Europe toward China and the worries over Ukraine and economic ties as well as human rights and environmental issues.