Fortifying China

Tai Ming Cheung is Director of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California, San Diego, where he also leads the institute's Study of Technology and Innovation project. Previously, he was based in northeast Asia (Hong Kong, China, and Japan) as a journalist for the Far Eastern Economic Review and subsequently as a political and business risk consultant for a number of companies, including PricewaterhouseCoopers.

• 1. Bridging the Civil-Military Technological Divide in the Information AgeIntegrating the Civilian and Defense EconomiesChina's Enduring Quest for Wealth and Military PowerThe National Innovation Systems FrameworkExamining the Defense Economy through the NIS PrismUnderstanding How Defense Technological Innovation Takes Place2. Innovation and Stagnation during the Maoist EraThe Building of the Conventional and Strategic Weapons BasesThe Defense Economy's Relationship with the Maoist NISThe Setup of the Conventional and Strategic Weapons SystemsThe Floundering of the Conventional Defense Industrial SystemBarriers to Conventional Weapons InnovationThe Flourishing of the Strategic Weapons SystemThe Consolidation of the Defense Economy in the Late 1970s3. The Eclipse of the Defense Economy under Deng XiaopingThe Defense Economy and Its Relationship with the NIS in the 1980sDefense ConversionThe Impact of Conversion on the Defense EconomySuccesses and Drawbacks of ConversionThe Struggle to Overhaul the Legacy Defense Industrial BaseKey Activities of the SystemThe State of the Defense Economy by the Late 1990s4. The Revival of the Defense Economy in the Twenty-first CenturySetting the Stage for Bold ReformsThe Relationship between the Defense and National Innovation SystemsReform and Consolidation BeginKey Activities of the Rejuvenated Defense Innovation SystemThe Prospects for Catching Up and Leapfrogging5. Building a Dual-Use EconomyFrom Defense Conversion to Dual Use and Spin-OnDefining the Yujun Yumin Dual-Use EconomyChinese Approaches to Civil-Military Integration and Spin-OnBuilding Linkages between the Civilian and Defense EconomiesHarnessing Civilian High Technology Companies for Military PurposesThe Geographical Landscape of Dual Use and CMIThe Chinese Approach in Comparative Perspective6. Can the Chinese Defense Economy Catch Up?The Techno-Nationalist Underpinning of the Catch-Up ApproachThe Debate over China's Military Technological Catching UpThe Developmental Models for Catching UpConditions for Technological Catching Up and the Case of the Space IndustryPolicy Challenges for the United StatesAppendix: Chinese TermsAppendix: Historical Official Exchange Rates between the Renminbi and U.S. Dollar, 1955–2008Select Chinese-Language BibliographyIndex

"No analyst knows China's military-industrial complex better than Tai Ming Cheung. China was plagued by various bureaucratic, technological, intellectual, and international obstacles for decades. Cheung shows how recent reforms are revitalizing the defense sector—particularly by introducing market mechanisms and dual-use civilian technologies. This is an important book on a neglected aspect of China's modernization process."—David Shambaugh, George Washington University