Military
Scholarly Publications
The PLA’s Evolving Role in China’s South China Sea Strategy
December 2020
During the past eight months of the global COVID pandemic, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been active in promoting China’s claims in the South China Sea. This essay evaluates PLA...
Peace on a Knife's Edge: The Inside Story of Roh Moo-hyun's North Korea Policy
February 2018
Peace on a Knife’s Edge is the translation of Lee Jong-Seok's 2014 memoir of South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun's efforts to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula in the face of opposition at home...
China's Vision of World Order
October 2012
China has benefited from the liberal international order led by the United States.
Other Publications
The Precarious State of Cross-Strait Deterrence
Statement before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on “Deterring PRC Aggression Toward Taiwan”
News
Reassessing China’s Capabilities and Goals for Strategic Competition
November 2021
On the World Class podcast, Oriana Skylar Mastro argues that in order to set effective policy toward China, the United States needs to better understand how and why China is projecting power.
What the U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan Means for Taiwan
September 2021
In a New York Times opinion piece, Center Fellow Oriana Skylar Mastro argues that the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan does not represent a potential catalyst for an impending Chinese attack on...
Events
Is India Losing?: A conversation with Ashley Tellis
October 23, 2020
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Military Competition with China: Harder to Win Than During the Cold War?
September 23, 2020
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Partner, Competitor, and Challenger: Thoughts on the Future of America’s China Strategy
April 1, 2020
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Projects
The PRC at 70: Past, Present -- and Future?
IMPORTANT EVENT UPDATE: In keeping with Stanford University's March 3 message to the campus community on COVID-19 and current recommendations of the CDC, the China Program is making modifications...
English
Political Movements in an Authoritarian Hierarchy
This project investigates the sources of stability and conflict in authoritarian regimes, especially regimes that have a unitary national government, apply threats and repression to their own...
English
Reconciliation and Cooperation in East Asia
By linking internal, external, and regional aspects of historical injustice, the project seeks to move beyond state-oriented approaches and binary categories such as victim versus aggressor in...
English
Multimedia
Oriana Skylar Mastro Discusses China's Naval Capacity on the BBC World Service
September 2021
Center Fellow Oriana Skylar Mastro joined BBC World Service's The Real Story host Ritula Shah and a panel of experts to discuss China's naval might and its military modernization program (the interview with Mastro starts at 24:00) China has...
The North Korea Crisis
June 2017
Video and transcript from the joint CISAC/Shorenstein APARC panel discussion, "The North Korea Crisis," on May 30, 2017, with James Person, director of the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation at the Center for Korean History and Public Policy; Gi-Wook...
North Korean Nuke, THAAD, and South Korean Debates
March 2017
Video and transcript from Shorenstein APARC's Korea Program seminar on March 3, 2017, titled "North Korean Nuke, THAAD, and South Korean Debates," with Chung-in Moon, the Krause Distinguished Fellow at U.C.
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