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CIA - The World Factbook -- China For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the Communists under MAO Zedong established an autocratic socialist system that, while ensuring China's sovereignty, imposed strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people. After 1978, his successor DENG Xiaoping and other leaders focused on market-oriented economic development and by 2000 output had quadrupled. For much of the population, living standards have improved dramatically and the room for personal choice has expanded, yet political controls remain tight.

China a security threat to US? Chinese bid for Unocal, Pentagon worries over military spending lead to fresh discussion of Chinese 'threat'. In a report on National Public Radio's Morning Edition, Republican Illinois Congressman Donald Manzullo says he worries that the Chinese bid to buy Unocal could mean that China would keep the company's vast Asian oil reserves for itself, and not put the oil on the open market, thereby giving China an economic 'leg up.'

Wake up to the Chinese threat! By Rep. Dana Rohrabacher R-Calif. 06/28/06: The Pentagon’s annual report to Congress on the People’s Republic of China is a sobering document that should serve as a wake-up call for the administration, the Congress and the American people. The report recounts the explosive increases in China’s military spending, the nation’s increasingly ambitious strategic goals and its increasing coziness with adversaries of the United States. At the same time, it tells the story of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) attempts to dominate the democratic nation of Taiwan.

Chinese threat to dump dollars - an expert's view Aug 9th 2007 by Tom Barlow: I wrote yesterday about the recent Chinese veiled threat to dump its dollar holdings if the U.S. raises tariffs in hopes of coercing them to let the Yuan rise against the dollar. Today I had the opportunity to pick the brain of an expert on the topic, Brad Setser, Chief Economist at RGE Monitor and former acting director of the Office of International Monetary and Financial Policy at the U.S. Treasury.

The Chinese Threat By David Warren: Go ahead make my day, would be one possible response to a "veiled" threat to the United States from China this week. The threat was articulated by a certain He Fan, in the China Daily, who warned that if the U.S. put pressure on China to revalue the yuan, the Chinese could always retaliate by selling dollars.

THE REAL CHINESE THREAT By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF; August 27, 1995: ALMOST NO ONE NOTICED, BUT THIS summer the Pentagon drew a line in the sand. Washington committed itself to using American military force, if necessary, to keep international shipping lanes open in the South China Sea.

China’s Military Ambitions in Space, Wortzel and Cheng, Washington Roundtable on Science and Public Policy, 28 Nov 2006

China called a military threat by Japanese - Asia - Pacific ...SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 2006 Japan's foreign minister called China a military threat Sunday, while a top government spokesman rebuffed conciliatory gestures by Beijing over a controversial war shrine. Foreign Minister Taro Aso, who has angered China in recent months with a series of critical comments, questioned China's rapid military spending increases and its lack of transparency... China has announced double-digit spending increases for its 2.5 million- member military nearly every year since the early 1990s.

Chinese Spies in US Portend War With China According to federal investigators, four people recently arrested in Los Angeles are part of an extensive network of Chinese military intelligence agents operating here in the United States. The alleged spies have been working in the U.S. since 1990 and, according to documents obtained from the suspects, they may have compromised some of America's most important weapon systems.

How We Would Fight China The Middle East is just a blip. The American military contest with China in the Pacific will define the twenty-first century. And China will be a more formidable adversary than Russia ever was...

Chinese dragon awakens - Special Report - The Washington Times ... China is building its military forces faster than U.S. intelligence and military analysts expected, prompting fears that Beijing will attack Taiwan in the next two years, according to Pentagon officials. See also: Chinese Military Build Up - Sun Tzu and Chinese War Machine

Traditional Military Thinking and the Defensive Strategy of China, by Lieutenant General Li Jijun, Vice President of the Academy of Military Science, The Chinese People's Liberation Army

Learning from the Stones: a Go Approach to Mastering China's Strategic Concept, Shi, by Lai, for Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

Heeding Sun or Mao? Assessing China's Military Thinking, by Halloran, Global Beat, NYU

Flawed icon of China's resurgence, CNN profile of Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976)

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, with a history of the work and its impact, by Ferguson, at Princeton U.

New Century, Old Thinking: the Dangers of the Perceptual Gap in U.S.-China Relations, by Puska, for Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

China's Manned Space Program: Sun Tzu or Apollo Redux? by Johnson-Freese, in Naval War College Review, Summer 2003

Chinese Warfare: the Paradox of the Unlearned Lesson, by Sawyer, in American Diplomacy

China's Electronic Strategies, by Thomas, in Military Review, May-June 2001

Behind the Great Firewall of China: A Look at RMA/IW Theory From 1996-1998, by Thomas, FMSO, 1998

Like Adding Wings to the Tiger: Chinese Information War Theory and Practice, by Thomas, FMSO, 2000

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