China’s Strategy

A Chinese strategy called the “Thousand Talents Plan” (TPP) has recruited 7,000 researchers, including Nobel laureates, a bipartisan Senate report found.“Thousand Talents Plan” has recruited thousands of academics to bring research from abroa…

Key Point: Access is an important and too often forgotten part of military strategy.  Last week the Pentagon released two appraisals of China in swift succession. The first, issued by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), goes by the title China Military Po…

Amazon's (NASDAQ:AMZN) aggressive push to court Chinese merchants could be flooding its U.S. marketplace with low-quality goods, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report claims that between May and August, it found 10,870 items that "have been declare…

Welcome to Foreign Policys weekly China Brief. The highlights this week: Hong Kongs police target university campuses, a potential legal clash between China and Vietnam, and why Chinas Uber is being criticized for sexism. If you would like to receive China B…

Late in 2011, as an invited group of residents of the posh Colombo-7 neighbourhood was partying in the Sri Lankan capital, an influential official took this correspondent aside and said, pointing to former President Chandrika Kumaratunga: Watch her. She will …

Effective Competitive Advantage: Strategy, Technology and Information Thomas A. Drohan In 1983, Project Socrates began as an initiative within the Reagan administration to develop technology-driven competitive advantage. By 1990, the effort had been cancele…

Bowe Bergdahl leaves the courthouse after his arraignment hearing at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 2015. (Photo by Andrew Craft / The Fayetteville Observer via AP) On June 30, 2009, early in the Obama administrations troop surge in Afghanistan, Pfc. Bowe Bergd…

Advertising Trans-Pacific View author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into the U.S. Asia policy.  This conversation with Dr. Antoine Bondaz — program …

The National Defense University of the People's Liberation Army (NDU, PLA), China's top military college directly under the leadership of the Central Military Commission (CMC), was one of the first Chinese colleges to provide training to foreign military offi…

New Delhi (Sputnik): In August, the Indian Armys vice-chief designate M. M. Naravane stated that if the Chinese Army had crossed the border at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) 100 times, Indian troops have done so twice as many times.Days after the second Inf…