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Strategic Asia 2012-13: China's Military Challenge
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Strategic Asia 2012-13: China's Military Challenge

This book examines what China's military rise means for the region and the world, looking at China’s strategic aims and the challenges and opportunities facing the United States.

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By Ashley J. Tellis and Travis Tanner
Published on Oct 26, 2012

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Co-edited and introduced by Ashley Tellis, this book, the twelfth volume in the Strategic Asia series, examines what China's military rise means for the region and the world. What are China’s strategic aims? What are the challenges and opportunities facing the United States? How is the region responding to China’s military power and to the U.S. policy of “strategic rebalancing”?

 

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About the Editors:

Ashley J. Tellis is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Research Director of the Strategic Asia Program at NBR, served in the U.S. Department of State as senior adviser to the Undersecretary of State of Public Affairs, and previously as senior adviser to the Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in India. He also served on the National Security Council Staff as special assistant to the President and senior director for Strategic Planning and Southwest Asia. He is the author of India’s Emerging Nuclear Posture (2001) and co-author of Interpreting China’s Grand Strategy: Past, Present, and Future (2000), as well as the co-editor of the eight most recent volumes of Strategic Asia, published by NBR.

Travis Tanner is is the Senior Project Director and Director of the Pyle Center for Northeast Asian Studies at the National Bureau of Asian Research.

About the Authors

Ashley J. Tellis

Former Senior Fellow

Ashley J. Tellis was a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Travis Tanner

NBR

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Ashley J. Tellis
Former Senior Fellow
Travis Tanner
NBR
South AsiaIndiaAfghanistanPakistanEast AsiaChinaSecurityMilitaryForeign PolicyArms Control

Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

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