Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium
With China's annual military spending well into the hundreds of
billions of dollars, the People's Liberation Army is emerging as
Asia's preeminent military power. But can China achieve and
maintain a 21st Century superpower fighting machine with the
industrial infrastructure that it is now in the process of
assembling? Does it have the raw materials, financial
resources, technologies, and research and development bases to
become a true superpower within the next few decades? If so,
does it have a coherent strategy to attain that goal? Is
regional hegemony indeed the organizing principle of China's grand
strategy? Join five specialists, who together have over a
century of experience studying China and China's military, as they
discuss the trend lines and pose provocative scenarios for Asia's
future.
More About the Speakers
PANEL 1: CHINA'S NEW BATTLE SPACES - SEA SPACE,
NEAR SPACE AND CYBERSPACE
Ronald O'Rourke
Specialist in Naval Affairs,
Congressional Research Service
James Mulvenon
Director,
Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis
PANEL 2: FUTURE SHOCK - CHINA AS ASIA'S BIG
MILITARY POWER
Mark Stokes
Executive Director,
Project 2049 Institute
Dr. Michael Pillsbury
Consultant,
U.S. Department of Defense
Hosted By
John Tkacik, Jr.
Senior Research Fellow
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