ABSTRACT
Located in the center of Asia with one of the largest land frontiers in the world and 14 neighbors whose dispositions could not easily be predicted, China has long been obsessed with security. In this handbook, an internationally renowned team of contributors provide a comprehensive and systematic analysis of contemporary thinking about Chinese national security. Chapters cover the PRC's historical, ideological and doctrinal heritage related to security, its security arrangements and policies targeting key regions and nations of the world, the security aspects of the PRC's ground, air, sea, space and cyber forces, as well as the changing and expanding definition and scope of China's security theory and practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |59 pages
Chinese national security
part |176 pages
Geostrategic perspectives
section |57 pages
The great powers
section |63 pages
Regional security
chapter |17 pages
Courting the LDCs
section |55 pages
Collective security
part |116 pages
China's security forces
section |77 pages
The PLA Army
section |21 pages
China's evolving space capabilities
section |17 pages
China's security in the information age