Forging China's Military Might: A New Framework for Assessing Innovation

by Tai Ming Cheung (Editor)

Overview

Experts examine how innovation and technology are transforming China’s defense industry.

Among the most important issues in international security today are the nature and the global implications of China’s emergence as a world-class defense technology power. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Chinese defense industry has reinvented itself by emphasizing technological innovation and technology. This reinvention and its potential effects, both positive and negative, are attracting global scrutiny. Drawing insights from a range of disciplines, including history, social science, business, and strategic studies, Tai Ming Cheung and the contributors to Forging China's Military Might develop an analytical framework to evaluate the nature, dimensions, and spectrum of Chinese innovation in the military and broader defense spheres.

Forging China's Military Might provides an overview of the current state of the Chinese defense industry and then focuses on subjects critical to understanding short- and long-term developments, including the relationship among defense contractors, regulators, and end-users; civil-military integration; China’s defense innovation system; and China’s place in the global defense economy. Case studies look in detail at the Chinese space and missile industry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421411583
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	02/24/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Tai Ming Cheung is director of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California, San Diego, and the leader of its project on the study of innovation and technology in China. He is author of Fortifying China: The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy.

Table of Contents

Introduction Tai Ming Cheung 1

1 Frameworks for Analyzing Chinese Defense and Military Innovation Tai Ming Cheung Thomas G. Mahnken Andrew L. Ross 15

2 An Uncertain Transition: Regulatory Reform and Industrial Innovation in Chinas Defense Research, Development, and Acquisition System Tai Ming Cheung 47

3 The General Armament Department's Science and Technology Committee: PLA-Industry Relations and Implications for Defense Innovation Eric Hagt 66

4 Commissars of Weapons Production: The Chinese Military Representative System Susan M. Puska Dehra Geary Joe McReynolds 87

5 The Rise of Chinese Civil-Military Integration Daniel Alderman Lisa Crawford Brian Lafferty Aaron Shraberg 109

6 China's Emerging Defense Innovation System: Making the Wheels Turn Kathleen A. Walsh 136

7 Locating China's Place in the Global Defense Economy Richard A. Bitzinger Michael Raska Collin Koh Swee Lean Kelvin Wong Ka Weng 169

8 Organization as Innovation: Instilling a Quality Management System in China's Human Spaceflight Program Kevin Pollpeter 213

9 China's Evolving Space and Missile Industry: Seeking Innovation in Long-Range Precision Strike Mark Stokes 241

Conclusions Tai Ming Cheung 273

List of Contributors 281

Index 285

What People are Saying About This

Andrew Scobell

Forging China's Military Might constitutes high-quality, cutting-edge research on China's defense industries. It should enjoy broad appeal—among academics, policy makers, security analysts, and business people in countries around the world.

From the Publisher

Forging China's Military Might constitutes high-quality, cutting-edge research on China's defense industries. It should enjoy broad appeal—among academics, policy makers, security analysts, and business people in countries around the world.
—Andrew Scobell, RAND Corporation

Editorial Reviews

Key for China analysts and those who focus specifically on China's defense industry will be to identify well in advance those early warning indicators that will allow us to determine the extent to which real change in the industry is occurring, and how to determine how much of an impact it is having on China's ability to close the defense technology gap. This book helps to advance that conversation by providing a number of ways to look at [China's] defense industry in comparative perspective, which will be of value to anyone seeking to answer these questions for some time to come.

Center for International Maritime Security

This detailed, well structured and researched overview [is] the most comprehensive and even-handed of anything currently available.

Asian Affairs - Kerry Brown

The contributors have done incredible research on such a comprehensive subject in a single volume. Their multi-lingual capabilities and multiple-perspective approach have distinguished this book from most previous works.

Pacific Affairs

Forging China's Military Might belongs in any political science shelf interested in China's issues and international security and considers the nature of China's emergence as a world power.
—Midwest Book Review

This detailed, well structured and researched overview [is] the most comprehensive and even-handed of anything currently available.
—Kerry Brown, Asian Affairs

Key for China analysts and those who focus specifically on China's defense industry will be to identify well in advance those early warning indicators that will allow us to determine the extent to which real change in the industry is occurring, and how to determine how much of an impact it is having on China's ability to close the defense technology gap. This book helps to advance that conversation by providing a number of ways to look at [China's] defense industry in comparative perspective, which will be of value to anyone seeking to answer these questions for some time to come.
—Center for International Maritime Security

The contributors have done incredible research on such a comprehensive subject in a single volume. Their multi-lingual capabilities and multiple-perspective approach have distinguished this book from most previous works.
—Pacific Affairs

From the Publisher

Forging China's Military Might belongs in any political science shelf interested in China's issues and international security and considers the nature of China's emergence as a world power.

Midwest Book Review