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CIRA analyst Maggie Baughman’s work below was the winner of the recent Rhodium ChinaTalk essay contest. Ms. Baughman also discussed her research on the most recent episode of the ChinaTalk podcast. Almost two decades after China began marshaling its “fifty-cent army” to manipulate public conversation…
CIRA China analysts John Chen, Kieran Green, and Joe McReynolds have published a chapter on China’s Strategic Support Force in the newly released academic compilation The PLA Beyond Borders: Chinese Military Operations in Regional and Global Context: Over the past half-decade, China’s military leadership has…
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been testing the use of unmanned vehicles (UAVs) to perform logistical missions such as transportation and resupply since 2018. In academic explorations of border defense and logistics modernization, PLA logistics officers argue that UAVs can dramatically increase the…
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