On February 17, the Belfer Center co-convened the inaugural round of the “Trilateral Dialogue: Opportunities and Challenges for U.S.-China-Korea Cooperation” in Seoul, South Korea.

Two months ago, China's high-technology and Internet industries appeared ready to burst onto the global stage. As part of China's deal with the United States to enter the World Trade Organization, trade negotiators agreed to remove some of the most stifling restrictions on foreign investment in China's telecommunications, high-technology and emerging Internet industries.

The author explores the evolution of Chinese thinking about the importance of high technology and China's effort to develop a high-tech capability to enhance its national security.

Analyses of Asian security that focus on contingencies for interstate war have only half the story right and, for that matter, have the story of an unstable Asia right mostly for the wrong reasons.