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Political Renewal and the Pursuit of National Rejuvenation
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For the first time since its founding in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has adopted a new paradigm for its role in China. Abandoning its form...
The question of how China's rise will affect the post-World War II international order carries considerable significance for the future of global poli...
China's Perspective on the U. S. -China Military Balance
The People's Republic of China's (PRC's) and the People's Liberation Army's (PLA's) understanding of the military balance is fundamentally based on sy...
National Security and Military Strategies, Deterrence Concepts, and Combat Capabilities
This study describes China's national and security strategies and its approach to war and escalation control; summarizes its military capabilities dev...
Examining the Effects of Technologies on Strategic Deterrence in the 21st Century
The authors examined potential effects that emerging technologies could have on U.S. national security policy and identified long-term effects that th...
Country Perspectives
The authors examine the nature of the emerging era of international competition, assess the perspectives of the major powers?beginning with the primar...
Patterns, Drivers, and Signposts
China has undertaken two broad types of military interventions in its post-1949 history. The authors assess which one of two patterns is likely to pre...
Implications for Japan's Air Self-Defense Force
A long-standing rivalry between China and Japan has intensified in recent years, owing in part to growing parity between the two Asian great powers. A...
An Analysis of Chinese International and Defense Strategies to Outcompete the United States
This research explores possible strategies that China might employ to outcompete the United States. The authors of this report aim to support U.S. pla...
The authors explore where, how, and how often U.S. adversaries (specifically, Russia, China, and Iran) have intervened militarily since 1946 and ident...
Exploring the Security Implications of a Power Grid Developed and Governed by China
In 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping endorsed a new initiative, known as the Global Energy Interconnection (GEI), that could help solve humanity's pr...
Chinese and Russian Perspectives
This report is part of a larger RAND Corporation study on the societal foundations of national competitiveness. The authors surveyed Chinese and Russi...
Security in an Age of Weakening States
This report examines how the U.S.-China rivalry might unfold in a period that retains aspects of modern life but features weakening states, fragmentin...
Assessing Strengths and Vulnerabilities in a Potential Conflict
In this report, the authors develop a framework for assessing a country's capacity to resist a large-scale attack and then use that framework to asses...
The State of Deterrence in Korea and the Taiwan Strait
Foundations for the Analysis and OUtline of the Report -- The State of Deterrrence in Korea : North Korea's Motivation ; Clarity of the U.S. Deterrenc...
Scenarios of Systemic Conflict Between the United States and China
Through a careful synthesis of current and historical data on relevant factors, anticipated trends, and research-grounded speculation, the authors ana...
Contexts, Constraints, and Concepts
This report seeks to address how the U.S. Army can most effectively project and employ land power in the Indo-Pacific, during competition and conflict...
An Analysis of People's Liberation Army Missions, Tasks, and Potential Vulnerabilities
The authors (1) identify tasks that the Chinese military would likely be assigned in peacetime competition with the United States and in a hypothetica...
This report assesses how China may react to U.S. military activities in the Indo-Pacific. It provides a framework of factors likely to determine Chine...
Executive Summary
The Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Reform asked the RAND Corporation for an independent analysis of PPBE-like fu...
U.S.-China trade tensions have waxed and waned for decades but have remained persistently high since 2017. In this report, the authors assess the effe...
Case Studies of China and Russia, Volume 1
In this first volume of four reports examining nine case studies of budgeting processes across comparative organizations, RAND Corporation researchers...
Army Roles in the Indo-Pacific
The authors of this report seek to provide an engaging and structured narrative to clearly describe the U.S. Army's role throughout the Indo-Pacific r...
This report examines the role that land-based, multi-domain anti-access/area denial forces can play in helping the U.S. and its allies and partners de...
A Framework to Assess Potential Host Nations
Using a framework of 17 indicators, the authors assess and rank potential host nations for Chinese overseas basing and access. They recommend steps to...
A Concept for Proactive Campaigning Short of Traditional War
Researchers from RAND Corporation develop a new concept for strategic disruption by special operations forces, involving proactive campaigns to delay,...
Leveraging theory and historical cases, the authors identify the factors that keep great-power rivalries stable and those that lead to conflictual out...
Selections from the Inaugural Conference of the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)
"During June 2015, the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI), in conjunction with Headquarters, United States Air Force, held its inaugural confere...
"This report is based on RAND Project AIR FORCE Strategy and Doctrine Program research that was presented at the second China Aerospace Studies Instit...
The Political Peril of Economic Upgrade in Single Party, Authoritarian Regimes
The theory of the "enabling condition" explains how favorable political conditions can facilitate economic upgrade. Through a case study comparison in...