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China's evolving role in global security is pivotal. We explore its military modernization, territorial disputes, cyber capabilities, and foreign cooperation strategies, to better shape a stable international order and safeguard collective security interests in the 21st century.

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Police force line up during a security parade in preparation for the upcoming the G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia on Nov. 7, 2022.

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Security without Exclusivity: Hybrid Alignment under U.S.-China Competition

Winter 2024/25 by Sheena Greitens and Isaac B. Kardon

From International Security Program

Event Summary

Escaping Thucydides’s Trap in China-U.S. Relations

Feb. 17, 2025
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Taiwan’s Path to Security

Feb. 6, 2025 by Ethan Kessler and Dennis L. Weng
Reports & Papers

The Autonomous Arsenal in Defense of Taiwan: Technology, Law, and Policy of the Replicator Initiative

Feb. 3, 2025 by Eric Rosenbach, Ethan Lee and Bethany Russell

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Security without Exclusivity: Hybrid Alignment under U.S.-China Competition

Winter 2024/25 by Sheena Greitens and Isaac B. Kardon

Article

from International Security

Police force line up during a security parade in preparation for the upcoming the G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia on Nov. 7, 2022.

Escaping Thucydides’s Trap in China-U.S. Relations

Feb. 17, 2025

Event Summary

from Munich Security Conference 2025

Taiwan’s Path to Security

Feb. 6, 2025 by Ethan Kessler and Dennis L. Weng

Article

from U.S. China Relations

The Autonomous Arsenal in Defense of Taiwan: Technology, Law, and Policy of the Replicator Initiative

Feb. 3, 2025 by Eric Rosenbach, Ethan Lee and Bethany Russell

Reports & Papers

from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

An AI generated image of a drone ship sailing on stormy seas with flying drones and explosions in the sky.

Chinese Views of Strategic Stability: Implications for U.S.-China Relations

Fall 2024 by David C. Logan

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from International Security

Fu Cong, center, the director general of the Foreign Ministry's arms control department, attends a press conference on nuclear arms control in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022.

Back to Bipolarity: How China’s Rise Transformed the Balance of Power

Fall 2024 by Jennifer Lind

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from International Security

A staff member gestures to a delegate during a session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Friday, March 10, 2023.

Navigating China’s Opportunistic Approach to Overseas Naval Base Acquisition

November 2023 by Maxwell Simon and Jayaram Ravi

Reports & Papers

from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105), front, and the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10), rear, conduct joint operations with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Akebono (DD-108) in the South China Sea

To Punish or Protect? Local Leaders and Economic Coercion in China

Fall 2023 by Kacie Miura

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from International Security

Protesters on demonstration bus interacting with police and pedestrians during 918 Shenyang Anti-Japan Demonstration, September 18, 2012.