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A New Look at China's Military
Date:June 7, 2006
Time:10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Speaker(s):Daniel Blumenthal
Resident Fellow,
American Enterprise Institute,
and
Commissioner,
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

Randall Schriver
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

John J. Tkacik, Jr.
Senior Research Fellow,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

Dr. Larry Wortzel
Chairman,
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

Professor Wang Yuan-kang
Visiting Fellow,
The Brookings Institution
Host(s):Ambassador Harvey Feldman
Distinguished Fellow,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation


Details:

Location: The Heritage Foundation's Allison Auditorium

China has the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United States and field disruptive military technologies that could over time offset traditional U.S. military advantages.

– The 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review

China’s military expansion is such as to alter regional military balances. Long-term trends in China’s strategic nuclear forces modernization, land- and sea-based access denial capabilities, and emerging precision-strike weapons have the potential to pose credible threats to modern militaries operating in the region.
– Military Power of the People’s Republic of China, 2006

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