• Introduction. Chairman Xi remakes the PLA / Joel Wuthnow and Philip C. Saunders
• Part I: Drivers and strategic context. Breaking the Paradigm: Drivers Behind the PLA's Current Period of Reform / David M. Finkelstein ; Choosing the "Least Bad Option": Organizational Interests and Change in the PLA Ground Forces / John Chen ; The Impact of Xi-Era Reforms on the Chinese Navy / Ian Burns McCaslin and Andrew S. Erickson ; The Flag Lags but Follows: The PLA and China's Great Leap Outward / Andrew Scobell and Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
• Part II: Building a Joint Force. Toward a More Joint, Combat-Ready PLA? / Mark R Cozad ; Coming to a (New) Theater Near You: Command, Control, and Forces / Edmund J. Burke and Arthur Chan ; Handling Logistics in a Reformed PLA: The Long March Toward Joint Logistics / LeighAnn Luce and Erin Richter ; A Modern Major General: Building Joint Commanders in the PLA / Joel Wuthnow and Philip C. Saunders
• Part III: Overhauling Services. PLA Force Reductions: Impact on the Services / Daniel Gearin ; The Biggest Loser in Chinese Military Reforms: The PLA Army / Dennis J. Blasko ; Making Sense of China's Missile Forces / David C. Logan ; China's Strategic Support Force: A Force for a New Era / John Costello and Joe McReynolds
• Part IV: Centralizing Authority. Large and in Charge: Civil-Military Relations under Xi Jinping / Philip C. Saunders and Joel Wuthnow ; The New PLA Leadership: Xi Molds China's Military to His Vision / Joel McFadden, Kim Fassler, and Justin Godby
• Part V. Integrating with Society. Keeping Up with the Jundui: Reforming the Chinese Defense Acquisition, Technology, and Industrial System / Tai Ming Cheung ; Civil-Military Integration and PLS Reforms / Brian Lafferty ; System Overload? The 2015 PLA Force Reduction, Military-Locality Relations, and the Potential for Social Instability / Ma Chengkun and John Chen ; Conclusion: Assessing Chinese Military Reforms, Philip C. Saunders and Joel Wuthnow
• About the Contributors
• Index.

"China's current military reforms are unprecedented in their ambition and in the scale and scope of the organizational changes. Virtually every part of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) now reports to different leaders, has had its mission and responsibilities changed, has lost or gained subordinate units, or has undergone a major internal reorganization. Drawing upon papers presented at two conferences co-organized by the U.S. National Defense University, RAND, and Taiwan's Council of Advanced Policy Studies, this edited volume brings together some of the world's best experts on the Chinese military to analyze the various dimensions of the reforms in detail and assess their implications for the PLA's ability to conduct joint operations, for the Chinese Communist Party's control of the army, and for civil-military integration. The contributors review the drivers and strategic context underpinning the reform effort, explore the various dimensions of PLA efforts to build a force capable of conducting joint operations, consider the implications for the PLA services, and examine Xi Jinping's role in driving the reforms through and using them to strengthen control over the military. The chapters chronicle successes and outstanding problems in the reform effort and consider what the net effect will be as the PLA strives to become a "world-class" military by mid-century, if not much sooner."--Page 4 of cover.

• List of Abbreviations
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Policy Principles for Constructive Vigilance
• Introduction
• 1. Congress
• 2. State and Local Governments
• 3. The Chinese American Community
• 4. Universities
• 5. Think Tanks
• 6. Media
• 7. Corporations
• 8. Technology and Research
• Appendix 1. China's Influence Operations Bureaucracy
• Appendix 2. China's Influence Activities in Select Countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and ASEAN, United Kingdom
• Appendix 3. Chinese-Language Media Landscape
• Dissenting Opinion
• Afterword
• Notes
• Working Group participants
• Index

While Americans are generally aware of China's ambitions as a global economic and military superpower, few understand just how deeply and assertively that country has already sought to influence American society. As the authors of this volume write, it is time for a wake-up call. In documenting the extent of Beijing's expanding influence operations inside the United States, they aim to raise awareness of China's efforts to penetrate and sway a range of American institutions: state and local governments, academic institutions, think tanks, media, and businesses. And they highlight other aspects of the propagandistic "discourse war" waged by the Chinese government and Communist Party leaders that are less expected and more alarming, such as their view of Chinese Americans as members of a worldwide Chinese diaspora that owes undefined allegiance to the so-called Motherland. Featuring ideas and policy proposals from leading China specialists, China's Influence and American Interests argues that a successful future relationship requires a rebalancing toward greater transparency, reciprocity, and fairness. Throughout, the authors also strongly state the importance of avoiding casting aspersions on Chinese and on Chinese Americans, who constitute a vital portion of American society. But if the United States is to fare well in this increasingly adversarial relationship with China, Americans must have a far better sense of that country's ambitions and methods than they do now.
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"In August 1966, a 14-year-old boy in Beijing is thrust into violence and chaos as Mao Ze-dong's Cultural Revolution begins to blaze across China. In this riveting memoir, Wei Yang Chao now tells his story--how rebels attacked and publicly humiliated his family, upended his education, and sent out of a country rendered unrecognizable by violence and radical ideology. At first he is swept up by the Red Guards but finds himself at the center of a bloody revolution. After mass rallies at Tiananmen Square, he witnesses attacks on teachers and professors, and the disintegration of his parents' lives as tolerance and freedom begin to crumble he finds himself cast into exile"--Amazon.com.

• Editors' preface
• Foreword / Liu Daqun
• Foreword / Sun Xiaoxia
• Foreword / Hans-Peter Kaul
• Foreword / Theodor Meron
• Crimes against peace in the Tokyo Trial / Xue Ru
• From Tokyo to Rome : a Chinese perspective / Zhu Dan
• Japanese receptions of separate opinions at the Tokyo Trial / Yuma Totani
• Dissent at Tokyo : the opinion of Justice Henri Bernard at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East / David Cohen
• The Tokyo Trial and its influence on contemporary international criminal justice / Gao Xiudong
• The Nanjing Trials : victor's [sic] justice? Revisiting the case of Tani Hisao / Liu Daqun
• The Nanjing Trial and its impact on the Chinese and Japanese peoples / Wang Xintong
• On the successor commander's responsibility : the Okamura Yasuji Case revisited / Yang Lijun
• The fall of the tigers of Hong Kong : Chinese war crimes trials of three Japanese governors of Hong Kong / Zhang Tianshu
• War crimes trials in China after the Second World War : justice and politics / Zhang Binxin
• The progress of historical documents acquisition and compilation on Japanese war crimes trials after the Second World War in the National Library of China / Gao Hong and Li Dan
• Joint and command responsibility in Hong Kong's war crimes trials : revisiting the cases of Kishi Yasuo and Noma Kennosuke / Nina H. B. Jørgensen and Crustal Yeung
• Overcoming challenges in historical war crimes research : the Hong Kong War Crimes Trials Project / Suzannah Linton
• Evidence collection and preservation in international criminal tribunals / Guido Acquaviva.

This book tells a story of the city of Harbin, China. It also chronicles the experiences of a White Russian family living there before they had to leave China in the late 1950s. -- Publisher.

• Introduction: The PLA and contingency planning in China / Phillip C. Saunders
• I. Thinking and Planning for Contingencies. The PLA and contingency planning / Mark Cozad
• PLA observations of U.S. contingency planning: what has it learned? / Marcelyn L. Thompson
• China plans for internal unrest: People's Armed Police and Public Security approaches to "mass incidents" / Jonathan Walton
• Civilian authorities and contingency planning in China / Catherine Welch
• Converting the potential to the actual: Chinese mobilization policies and planning / Dean Cheng
• Employment of national-level PLA assets in a contingency: a cross-Strait conflict as case study / Mark A. Stokes
• II. Domestic Contingencies. China's armed forces respond to internal disaster relief: assessing mobilization and effort / Jeffrey Engstrom and Lyle Morris
• PLA response to widespread internal unrest in the Han homeland / Ma Chengkun
• III. Border Contingencies. The PLA and cross-border contingencies in North Korea and Burma / Thomas Woodrow
• PLA contingency planning and the case of India / Larry M. Wortzel
• Like a good neighbor: Chinese intervention through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization / Ben Lowsen
• IV. Maritime Contingencies. The PLA and near seas maritime sovereignty disputes / Alexander Chieh-cheng Huang
• The PLA and far seas contingencies: Chinese capabilities for noncombatant evacuation operations / Michael S. Chase
• PLA Navy planning for out of are deployments / Kristen Gunness and Samuel K. Berkowitz.

How will China use its increasing military capabilities in the future? China faces a complicated security environment with a wide range of internal and external threats. Rapidly expanding international interests are creating demands for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to conduct new missions ranging from protecting Chinese shipping from Somali pirates to evacuating citizens from Libya. The most recent Chinese defense white paper states that the armed forces must "make serious preparations to cope with the most complex and difficult scenarios...so as to ensure proper responses...at any time and under any circumstances." Based on a conference co-sponsored by Taiwan's Council of Advanced Policy Studies, RAND, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and National Defense University, [this book] brings together leading experts from the United States and Taiwan to examine how the PLA prepares for a range of domestic, border, and maritime contingencies. The book includes chapters on how the PLA, domestic security forces, and the civilian government conduct contingency planning and how military commanders can draw upon national-level military assets and mobilize civilian resources to execute their plans. Substantive chapters assess PLA planning for potential domestic contingencies such as suppressing internal unrest, border contingencies involving India, Myanmar, North Korea, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, and maritime contingencies in both the near and the far seas. Authors also examine PLA preparations and performance in disaster relief, counterpiracy, and noncombatant evacuation operations. Improving PLA capabilities are giving Chinese leaders new options to respond to domestic and international crises, but the PLA still has significant limitations in projecting and sustaining power, especially in contested environments. -- Back cover.

"中国之翼"书写了一段未被透露的航空编年史的篇章,它讲述了二战时期亚洲战场动荡的背景下的航空冒险的扣人心弦的故事.故事的主体是激动人心的真实的'空中兄弟连'的冒险事迹.正是这些人在二战期间帮助打开了被封锁的中国的天空,并勇敢的在各种冲突中勇敢守卫着它.

• Saint Patrick's day, 1931
• "You won't be able to handle the pilots"
• "This airline is a partnership"
• Cake and champagne
• Route three
• A Pan Am man and a woman named Kitsi
• The last of the salad days
• Things fall apart
• The cavalry
• Shanghai November
• Resurrection
• The provisional capital
• The Kweilin incident
• The evacuation of Hankow
• Meeting Madame
• Bombing season
• Ventricular tachycardia
• a wing and a spare, no prayers needed
• "Those planes are Japanese!"
• In the fight
• "For us it started five years ago"
• Clipping the edge of bedrock
• "We'll be talking about that for the rest of our lives"
• Not the worst way to fight a war
• To lose a friend
• Getting his
• The gold missions
• Endgame.

"The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II"--Jacket.