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
Understanding the Stakes in Taiwan
November 2022
Larry Diamond and Oriana Skylar Mastro join Michael McFaul on the World Class podcast to discuss China’s ambitions against Taiwan, and how the U.S. and its allies can deter Beijing.
Assessing U.S. Force Posture in a Taiwan Contingency
July 2022
Center Fellow Oriana Skylar Mastro talks to the Center For Advanced China Research about the risk of Chinese attacks on U.S. military bases in Asia at the outset of a Taiwan conflict, the likelihood...
Unpacking the Crisis in Xinjiang: James Millward on China's Assimilationist Policies and U.S.-China Engagement
March 2022
APARC Visiting Scholar James Millward discusses PRC ethnicity policy, China's crackdown on Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang province, and the implications of the Xinjiang crisis...
Old Events
Should War be Left to the Generals? Civil-Military Relations in India
February 3, 2022
Time: 7:30am-8:45am California, USA 15 February 2022 3:30pm-4:45pm London, UK 15 February 2022 11:30pm-12:45am Singapore, 15-16 February 2022 How does India’s civil-military relationship affect...
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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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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