Translation Tag: national security
Zuo Xiying, one of China’s top experts on international security, examines evolving U.S. deterrence strategies in light of rising strategic competition with China. He argues that the gap in conventional deterrence capabilities between China and the U.S. is rapidly narrowing owing to China’s technological and military advances and what he sees as the decline of the U.S. industrial base. As a “stress reaction” to this perceived decline, Zuo argues U.S. policymakers have begun to discuss declining American conventional deterrence capabilities vis-a-vis China more frequently. Zuo warns that Beijing should approach shifts in relative capabilities cautiously, and recognize that the U.S. is expanding its “toolbox” of mechanisms that can be leveraged flexibly to deter China, particularly in the case of heightened tensions in the Taiwan Strait.
Researchers at the PLA’s National University of Defense Technology examine the U.S. strategy of deterrence by denial against China since 2017, tracing developments across the Trump and Biden administrations and assessing likely impacts on China’s efforts to shape its regional security environment. The authors argue that while these strategies have “achieved some of the expected effects,” they will be constrained abroad by the security interests of regional U.S. partners and allies and domestically through disagreement among U.S. political parties and U.S. military branches about how to approach building denial capabilities.
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A researcher at one of China’s top institutions studying South Asia explores the security dilemma between China and India that—while varying in nature and severity—has characterized the relationship for 70 years.
This is translation of a section of a Q&A series explaining theories from Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, published in the People’s Daily. This section deals with the concept that political security is inseparable from national security, explaining that “political security is directly connected to the life and death of the Party and country”.
This article from the deputy director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences links the Global Security Initiative (GSI) directly to Xi Jinping’s Overall National Security Outlook. The Outlook emphasizes that China’s national security is in part contingent on global security, and thus, Feng argues, strengthening the security architecture in accordance with the GSI is one of Beijing’s core interests.
Lengthy analysis of Sino-Russian cooperation as a force for diplomacy and multipolarity in space, emphasizing the two countries’ opposition to a perceived U.S. arms race and weaponization of space.
Assessing US-China relations by influential Sino-US relations scholar at think tank under direct supervision of the Ministry of State Security.
A chapter from the revised textbook by the PLA’s National Defense University (NDU) serves as an authoritative study reference for senior PLA officers on military doctrine and strategy. This chapter offers insights into the evolution of PLA roles, missions, and thinking about military crisis.
This lengthy analysis by a CCP Central Party School researcher argues that in the “face of diverse and complex traditional threats intertwined with non-traditional security threats,” ideological security is a critical component of overall national security. Preserving ideological security has become an increasingly important tasks as Western countries have, according to the author, intensified their efforts to “export” freedom, democracy, and other liberal values to China, with the aim of “overthrowing” the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese socialist system.