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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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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

Reports & Papers

Navigating China’s Opportunistic Approach to Overseas Naval Base Acquisition

November 2023 by Maxwell Simon and Jayaram Ravi

Article

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

Fall 2023 by Kacie Miura
Article

"Wars without Gun Smoke": Global Supply Chains, Power Transitions, and Economic Statecraft

Fall 2023 by Ling S. Chen and Miles M. Evers
Article

Is the War in Ukraine Distracting the U.S. From the Much Larger Challenge China Poses in Asia Specifically and to the U.S.-led World Order Generally?

Oct. 30, 2023

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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

Article

from International Security

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

"Wars without Gun Smoke": Global Supply Chains, Power Transitions, and Economic Statecraft

Fall 2023 by Ling S. Chen and Miles M. Evers

Article

from International Security

"Speaking of Leaks," cartoon, Independent, January 29, 1917.

Is the War in Ukraine Distracting the U.S. From the Much Larger Challenge China Poses in Asia Specifically and to the U.S.-led World Order Generally?

Oct. 30, 2023

Article

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

The Peril of Peaking Powers: Economic Slowdowns and Implications for China’s Next Decade

Summer 2023 by Michael C Beckley

Article

from International Security

Flowers bloom around graves of World War I soldiers prior to a foundation laying ceremony at Loos British Cemetery in Loos-en-Gohelle, France, Thursday, May 4, 2023.

Collective Resilience: Deterring China’s Weaponization of Economic Interdependence

Summer 2023 by Victor Cha

Article

from International Security

Gate of Tianjin Free-Trade Zone. A brightly lit arch over a nighttime roadway. A brightly lit pillar appears in the background.

Addressing Russian and Chinese Cyber Threats: A Transatlantic Perspective on Threats to Ukraine and Beyond

May 2023 by Svenja Kirsch and Bethan Saunders

Reports & Papers

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

A computer code is seen on displays in the office of Global Cyber Security Company Group-IB in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. A new strain of malicious software has paralyzed computers at a Ukrainian airport, the Ukrainian capital's subway and at some independent Russian media. Moscow-based Global Cyber Security Company Group-IB said in a statement Wednesday the ransomware called BadRabbit also tried to penetrate the computers of major Russian banks but failed.

How Information Flows Impact Decision Making

May. 11, 2023

Article

from Center for Strategic & International Studies

Commuters wearing face masks walk across an intersection near an electronic billboard for China's armed forces during the morning rush hour in Beijing, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023.