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Slide for Planning for Protracted Conflict with China: Five Questions to Ask
China Landpower Studies Center
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June 26, 2025
Planning for Protracted Conflict With China: Five Questions to Ask
Where and how a conflict starts will affect the kind of war it will be.
Slide for Assessing the PLA’s Strengths and Weaknesses for Achieving the PRC’s Goals
China Landpower Studies Center
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June 3, 2025
Assessing the PLA’s Strengths and Weaknesses for Achieving the PRC’s Goals
This chapter examines the perceived strengths and weaknesses of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) within the context of its modernization process and argues that the persistence of shortcomings may undercut the confidence senior leaders would prefer
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China Landpower Studies Center
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May 20, 2025
China Landpower Studies Center Newsletter II
In our second newsletter, we will share the China Landpower Studies Center (CLSC) team’s latest analysis and insights on the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Ecuador’s Incoming Government Faces Difficult Choices Regarding China | R. Evan Ellis
China Landpower Studies Center
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May 8, 2025
Ecuador’s Incoming Government Faces Difficult Choices Regarding China
With Daniel Noboa returning to the presidency and a new Chinese ambassador on the way, China-Ecuador relations are at an inflection point.From April 22-25, I had the opportunity to travel to Quito, Ecuador, to address an international forum on China
China’s Coming Diplomatic Blitz in the Americas | R. Evan Ellis
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May 8, 2025
China’s Coming Diplomatic Blitz in the Americas
The next few months will bring a series of high-profile multilateral engagements between China and Latin American countries, as Beijing seeks to capitalize on discontent with Trump.In the coming three months, China will have a number of opportunities
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Decisive Decade: PRC Global Strategy and the PLA as a Pacing Challenge – 2023 PLA Conference – Updated and Expanded
April 17, 2024
— The US Army War College’s 2023 Conference on the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was held February 22 to 24, 2023, at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. The conference, entitled “Decisive Decade: PRC Global Strategy and the PLA as Pacing Challenge,” featured presentations on PRC global and regional strategy, and the PLA’s enabling role by experts from a wide range of academic, media, and government agencies and organizations...
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Risk, Rumors, and Reprisals: The Imagined Side of Professional Writing
April 12, 2024
— With the Army’s renewed emphasis on professional writing, a disturbing narrative will likely...
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War with China: A View from Early 2024
April 11, 2024
— US defense analysts are overdue for a fundamental reassessment of the strategic factors that would shape a future Sino-American war. The United States may lower the overall risk of sparking a war between Washington and Beijing by more formally committing advanced US capabilities in intelligence collection and targeting, long-range fires, and theater air and missile defense to Japan and South Korea and by initiating bilateral planning to introduce such capabilities in Taiwan in the future. The US defense community still lacks a broad and integrated national strategy for successfully managing the rivalry with China. A clear-eyed assessment of a possible United States-China war could lead to a national strategy...
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A Baseline Assessment of the PLA Army's Border Reinforcement Operations in the Aksai Chin in 2020 and 2021
April 9, 2024
— This report analyzes the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) border reinforcement operation throughout the Aksai Chin and adjacent areas from summer 2020 to early 2021. It is based largely on analysis of Google Earth imagery and provides a baseline for further analysis of the PLA deployment along the entire Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Aksai Chin. Chinese Army units appear ready to remain in a defensive posture near the LAC the Aksai Chin indefinitely. ...
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75 years in, NATO Remains As Vital As Ever to American Life
April 4, 2024
— As NATO marks 75 years since its founding, there are serious questions among some Americans who...
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At 75, NATO Is Still Worth the Price
April 4, 2024
— Despite achieving notable successes over its seventy-five years of existence, NATO today faces a...
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Research Handbook on NATO "Collective Defense"
March 28, 2024
— Collective defense is back at center stage for NATO. This is primarily due to Russia’s 2014 invasion...
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Arming Allies and Partners: How Foreign Military Sales Can Change the China Problem
March 20, 2024
— Allies and partners are “a center of gravity” for the DoD National Defense Strategy in the Indo-Pacific. But are regional nations building military capacity to help the United States prepare for and deter a potential clash with the People’s Republic of China, or are they solely focused on defending their own territories? Although regional nations’ aims may often overlap, they also diverge...
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Argentina Political and Economic Challenges
March 12, 2024
— From February 24 through March 2, I traveled to Argentina to speak with government, business and...
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Is China Cornering the Green Energy Transition in Latin America?
March 6, 2024
— A key element of China’s economic advance over the past four decades has been the government’s...
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