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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CIRA China analyst Joe McReynolds and former SOSi analyst LeighAnn Ragland-Luce authored a chapter in the recent conference volume The People in the PLA 2.0 regarding the PLA’s human capital ecosystem for network and information warfare: In recent years, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has…
CIRA China analyst John Chen and CIRA head James Mulvenon authored a chapter in the recent conference volume The People in the PLA 2.0 regarding PLA foreign training exercises: The People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA’s) top leaders recognize that the quality of its personnel is a…
China analysts Morgan Clemens and Ben Rosen authored a chapter in conference volume The People in the PLA 2.0 regarding reforms to the PLA’s political work system: A key feature of the Xi Jinping era has been a focus on strengthening and revitalizing political work…
The Washington Post – The Trump administration is considering adding China’s largest semiconductor manufacturer to a trade blacklist, in another sign of heightening U.S.-China technology tensions. The Defense Department said it is working with other agencies to determine whether the “actions” of Semiconductor Manufacturing International…
A report released by CIRA has detailed how China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) maintains a variety of ties to China’s defense sector, including an ongoing relationship with CETC, a state-owned developer of military electronics. When producing the report, CIRA analysts made use of SOSi…
