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Dr. Tom Mahnken, authors Jack Bianchi, Madison Creery, Harrison Schramm, and Toshi Yoshihara discuss the new China's Strategic Choices report with ADM Philip S. Davidson, USN (ret.), former Commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command.
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CSBA Introduces New Strategic Choices Tool to Assess China’s Military Modernization
The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) is pleased to announce the launch of its latest analytical innovation, the China Strategic Choices Tool (SCT). Developed as the result of a dedicated multi-year research and analysis effort, the China Strategic Choices Tool builds on more than a decade of experience with CSBA’s proprietary U.S. Strategic Choices Tool. The China Strategic Choices Tool represents a truly unique analytical capability that allows users to explore Chinese defense investments as well as the costs associated with various defense options.
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Did America Get China Wrong? (with Professor Aaron Friedberg)
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Eric and Eliot host long-time friend and colleague Professor Aaron Friedberg of Princeton to discuss Aaron’s new book Getting China Wrong. They cover why we have persistently underestimated China’s rise as a revisionist power, the failures of the West’s “engagement” strategy, the elements of a different approach to China, dividing Russia and China, and the sorry state of academic political science.