China Studies
The China Studies program analyzes security developments related to China. Our research and analysis spans security issues related to China’s evolving military, economic, technological, and information activities. This analysis provides sponsors with insights to inform U.S. national security and policy decisions.
CNA China Studies draws on the expertise of more than 30 in-house analysts with language skills and experience working, living, or studying in Greater China. Their unique set of competencies is critical to an in-depth understanding of China’s efforts to pursue its national objectives and shape the global environment to its advantage.
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Black and White and Red All Over: China's Improving Foreign-Directed MediaElizabeth Bachman, August 2020
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China's Presence in the Middle East and Western Indian Ocean: Beyond Belt and RoadJeffrey Becker, Erica Downs, Ben DeThomas, Patrick deGategno, February 2019
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Managing Conflict: Examining Recent PLA Writings on Escalation ControlAlison A. Kaufman, Daniel M. Hartnett, February 2016
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China's Space Narrative, CNA and China Aerospace Studies InstituteKevin Pollpeter, Timothy Ditter, Anthony Miller, and Brian Waidelich, October 2020
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Telling China's COVID-19 Story Well: Beijing's Efforts to Control Information and Shape Public Narratives Regarding the 2020 Global PandemicJosiah Case, December 2020
News and Features
- "China’s commercial space sector shoots for the stars," East Asia Forum, March 13, 2021, Brian Waidelich
- "China and Russia: Vaccine Competitors or Partners," The Diplomat, February 23, 2021, Elizabeth Wishnick
- “Washington Still Wants China to Be a Responsible Stakeholder,” Foreign Policy, December 29, 2020, Andrew Taffer
- “Reading the Soy Leaves: What Soybean Preferences Say about China’s 2020 US Election Preferences,” The Diplomat, October 28, 2020, Elizabeth Wishnick
- “The People’s Liberation Army in 2018: Education and People’s War,” Chapter 4 in “The People in the PLA 2.0,” October 2020, US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, Brian Waidelich and Bernard D. Cole
- China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power, October 2020, Naval Institute Press, Michael McDevitt
- “Correspondence: Is China a Cautious Bully,” International Security 45, no. 2, October 2020, Andrew Taffer
- “Strategic Interests, Security Implications: China, Africa, and the Rest,” Presentation Recording, Johns Hopkins SAIS China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) Annual Conference, Panel 1: Development-Security Nexus, September 2020, April Herlevi
- “The Role of Digital Power in Estonia and Taiwan in Combating COVID-19,” presentation to the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, August 13, 2020, Elizabeth Wishnick (and Andrey Makarychev)
- “The Chinese View of Strategic Competition with the United States,” Testimony Before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, June 24, 2020, David M. Finkelstein, PhD
- “Sources of Sino-Russian Consolidation,” The China Leadership Monitor, Vol. 63, No. March 1, 2020, Elizabeth Wishnick
- “China’s Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Ploy to Undercut the US-Japan Alliance,” The Interpreter, September 6, 2019, Andrew Taffer
- “Threat and Opportunity: Chinese Wedging in the Senkaku/Diaoyu Dispute,” Asian Security, February 12, 2019, Andrew Taffer
Areas of Focus:
- Countering Chinese economic statecraft
- Defense and security affairs
- Foreign policy and transnational issues
- Leadership and domestic politics
- Institutional and organizational analyses
- Internal security and governance
- Social change
- Strategic communications