New Productive Forces
新质生产力

A little peak through the Marxist terminology

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Read the latest article from CASI ‘s Eli Tirk on changes in the #PLAAF and the #J -20 airuniversity.af.edu/CASI/Display/A…

New from Office of #Naval #Intelligence ( #ONI )!

2024 Recognition & Identification Guides for 1) #China People’s Liberation Army #Navy (PLAN) & 2) China #CoastGuard & Government #Maritime Forces

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Attention, Attention, Attention—This is not a drill! Don’t

Our latest from BluePath Labs:
Farewell to China’s Strategic Support Force. Let’s meet its replacements - Defense One defenseone.com/ideas/2024/04/…

Why did the #PLA disband the Strategic Support Force and what to make of the new Info Support Force? Delighted to be quoted in Defense News report on this along with CASI's Brendan Mulvaney defensenews.com/global/asia-pa…

Interesting report on the WuXi group by James Mulvenon w5499a.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/upl…

On the history of scholarship on authoriatrian resilience in China, recommend Fabio Lanza's 'Always Already and Never Yet: Does China Even Have a Present?' and my article, 'After Empire?: Cold War Scholarship on Mao's China.' Links to articles below.

Our latest from SpyTalk. spytalk.co/p/chinas-intel…

New U.S. Naval War College/China Maritime-CMSI Series!

#CMSI / #Chinese ( #中文 ) #Translations # 1 & 2—

人民海军 (People’s #Navy ) Articles on PLA’s Integration of Cutting-Edge Technologies

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ATTN Nicholas.A.Henderson 倪恒徳🇹🇼/Joe McReynolds/Peter Mattis

Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, China has used overseas financing to developing countries to consolidate a strategical wedge between the US & countries farther away from US foreign policy preferences by lending them more and on more favorable terms tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The new force will “focus on obtaining information and distributing [it] across platforms and forces, and ensuring the other side won’t be able to obtain our information,” Fu Qianshao, a former equipment expert with the PLA, said.

“In the past, different forces had independent

PRC Coast Guard participates in China-Russia Coast Guard working-level talks; exchange and cooperation activities planned for this year, operational seminars, tabletop exercises, sea surveys & other activities eng.mod.gov.cn/xb/News_213114…

PRC MND: Wu said building the aerospace force is of great significance to strengthening the capacity to safely enter, exit and openly use space, enhancing crisis management and the efficacy of comprehensive governance in space and promoting peaceful utilization of space. 1/2

'It is my view that there never was a #ColdWar #China , and this condition deeply shaped the #CCP ’s strategic space from the 1940s to the 1970s,' writes Covell Meyskens (@NPS_Monterey) bit.ly/3G0Vtb5 #Mao #Chineserevolution #CulturalRevolution #DengXiaoping #ZhouEnlai

At least 27 large 🇨🇳maritime militia & 1 #China Coast Guard ships are now on hand to greet 🇵🇭 #Philippines hydrographic research vessel BRP-H Ventura & its new escort, BRP Cabra (replacing BRP Gabriela Silang) near Thitu (Pag-Asa) Island.

One of XJP's phrases that stands out to me is the need to 'build a network information system that corresponds to the requirements of modern warfare and has PLA characteristics' 建设符合现代战争要求、具有我军特色的网络信息体系. There's a contradiction being addressed here.

#China PLA has disbanded the Strategic Support Force and announced a new 'Information Support Force' responsible for network information systems -- a new step in dominance of the info domain but many questions remain mod.gov.cn/gfbw/sy/tt_214…

PPLA has set up an information support force; new, strategic branch of the military and a key pillar in coordinating the construction and application of the network information system english.news.cn/20240419/87211…