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China’s ‘Starter Carrier’ Goes to Sea
August 7th, 2011What’s happening The long-awaited official announcement has finally been made. The first confirmations came in Chinese: “China’s aircraft carrier platform is undergoing sea trials today (中国航母平台今日进行出海航行试验)….
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12 in ’12: Strategic Challenges Facing the U.S. and China as the 2012 Politica...
July 11th, 2011Executive Summary: Challenges Washington faces that will affect relations with China 1) Adapting to a sometimes contradictory “frenemies” type relationship with China. 2) Accepting that China’s…
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Flying Shark” Gaining Altitude: How might new J-15 strike fighter improve Chin...
June 8th, 2011General Chen Bingde, Chief of Staff of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), has just been quoted as confirming that a Chinese “aircraft carrier is under construction…
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The ‘Flying Shark’ Prepares to Roam the Seas: Strategic pros and cons of Chi...
May 19th, 2011China’s budding aircraft carrier program is provoking energetic debate among Chinese and foreign observers. The former Ukrainian carrier Varyag (called “Shi Lang” by some Chinese Internet…
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China Defense White Paper 2010: Better transparency, but what key developments w...
April 5th, 2011China’s National Defense in 2010 continues the tradition of offering additional bits of incremental information each year, but still refrains from delving into the concrete discussion…
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China Aims to More Than Triple Its Oil & Gas Production in the South China S...
April 3rd, 2011New deepwater oil & gas exploration and production will likely complicate the South China Sea maritime security environment. –China is aiming for oil & gas production…