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.

 

chapter |17 pages

Introduction

China's security perspective

part |176 pages

Geostrategic perspectives

section |63 pages

Regional security

chapter |17 pages

Courting the LDCs

How partnerships with post-colonial governments became a top CCP security interest

section |55 pages

Collective security

part |116 pages

China's security forces

section |21 pages

China's evolving space capabilities

chapter |20 pages

China's evolving space capabilities

Implications for US interests

section |17 pages

China's security in the information age