A Year in Review: China
With Gordon Chang
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With Gordon Chang
GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China”:
PART ONE:
- 2014: the year of assertive Chinese foreign policy
- The purging of Communist Party officials and political turmoil in China
- Sluggish manufacture leading to a stagnating Chinese economy despite the low oil prices
- Beijing’s attempts to close off its markets from international financial actors
PART TWO:
- The Chinese military’s importance as Xi Jinping’s main political faction
- Similarities between the behavior of the People’s Liberation Army’s and the 1930’s Imperial Army of Japan
- Grading Chinese nuclear, conventional, and asymmetrical forces
- How the Chinese navy has benefitted from stolen U.S. technology, and even assistance
PART THREE:
- Chinese breakthroughs in the hypersonic weapons domain
- The U.S. space program’s heavy reliance on China, despite continued research into space warfare
- How the cyber component of the Chinese threat matrix are putting U.S. corporations and the electric grid in danger
PART FOUR:
- Chinese oversight on North Korea’s cyber warfare program
- U.S. reserve currency under threat from Communist China
- Predicting President Xi’s actions in the South and East China Seas
- Concern from Japan and South Korea regarding U.S. nuclear deterrence
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