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If China Attacks Taiwan: Beijing Risks Social Instability in a Conflict

A conversation between Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Dr. Jake Rinaldi, and Bonnie Glaser on the risk of domestic social instability for Beijing if China attacked Taiwan. A podcast from The German Marshall Fund of the United States.



Can the 15th Five-Year Plan Fix the People’s Liberation Army’s Procureme...

China’s newly released 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) proposal, unveiled after the Fourth Party Plenum in October 2025, not only marks Beijing’s quest to achieve the People’s Liberation Army’s goal of building a so-called world-class military by
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Category: SSI Worldwide

World View: The 1997 Strategic Assessment from the Strategic Studies Institute
February 3, 1997

Haiti Update
January 29, 1997

Tacit Acceptance and Watchful Eyes: Beijing’s Views about the U.S.-ROK Alliance
January 24, 1997

The Chemical Weapons Convention: Strategic Implications for the United States
January 8, 1997

The Peace process, Phase One: Past Accomplishments, Future Concerns
January 3, 1997

Force, Statecraft and German Unity: The Struggle to Adapt Institutions and Practices
December 1, 1996

Asian Security to the Year 2000
December 1, 1996

The ASEAN Regional Forum: Asian Security without an American Umbrella
December 1, 1996

Managing Strains in the Coalition: What to Do About Saddam?
November 1, 1996

Civil-Military Relations and the Not-Quite Wars of the Present and Future
October 1, 1996