1st Edition

China's Emergence as a Defense Technological Power

Edited By Tai Ming Cheung Copyright 2013
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

China is flexing its growing military and strategic clout in the pursuit of broadening national security interests. At the same time, the country’s economic and technology policies have also become more nationalistic, state-centered, and ambitious. China’s defense economy has set its sights on catching up with the West by the beginning of the 2020s and is making steady progress in building up its... Read more

Chapter 1. China's Anti-Access Strategy in Historical and Theoretical Perspective Thomas G. Mahnken, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, USA

Chapter 2. The Chinese Defense Economy's Long March from Imitation to Innovation Tai Ming Cheung, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation

Chapter 3. ‘Technology Determines Tactics’: The Relationship between Technology and Doctrine in Chinese Military Thinking Dennis J. Blasko, Lieutenant Colonel, US Army (ret.)

Chapter 4. The Chinese Aviation Industry: Techno-Hybrid Patterns of Development in the C919 Program Samm Tyroler-Cooper & Alison Peet.

Chapter 5. Upward and Onward: Technological Innovation and Organizational Change in China's Space Industry Kevin Pollpeter, China Program Manager, Defense Group Inc., Vienna, Virginia, USA

Chapter 6. China's Defense Technology and Industrial Base in a Regional Context: Arms Manufacturing in Asia Richard A. Bitzinger, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore

Chapter 7. The Slow Death of Japanese Techno-Nationalism? Emerging Comparative Lessons for China's Defense Production Christopher W. Hughes, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK

Chapter 8. China’s commercial shipbuilding development and naval ship production Gabe Collins

Chapter 9. China’s Ordnance Industry: Catching Up without Innovation? Arthur Ding, Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University. Taipei, Taiwan

Chapter 10. Contemporary Chinese Defense Science, Technology and Industry Civil-Military Integration Ed Francis, Defense Group, Inc.

Chapter 11. Defense Industrialization and Innovation in South Korea- Assessments, Institutional Arrangements and Comparative Implications Chung-in Moon, Yonsei University Jae-Ok Paek, Korea Institute for Defense Analysis

Chapter 12. China’s Defense Electronics Industry: Innovation, Adaptation, and Espionage James Mulvenon and Matthew Luce, Defense Group, Inc.

Chapter 13. On Military Innovation: Toward an Analytical Framework Andrew L. Ross, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of New Mexico

Chapter 14. China’s Nuclear Industry and the Limitation of Civil-Military Integration Jing-dong Yuan, Associate Professor in International Security, Centre for International Security Studies, University of Sydney

Biography

Tai Ming Cheung is the director of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). He directs the Minerva Initiative program on Chinese security and technology, a multi-year academic research and training project funded by the U.S. Defense Department to explore China’s technological potential. His most recent book, Fortifying China: The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy, was published in 2009 by Cornell University Press.