This volume brings together an international group of distinguished scholars to provide a fresh assessment of China's strategic military capabilities, doctrines, and its political perceptions in light of rapidly advancing technologies, an expanding and modernizing nuclear arsenal, and increased great-power competition with the United States.

Contributions by: James M. Smith, Paul J. Bolt, Andrew Scobell, Christopher P. Twomey, Sugio Takahashi, Hans M. Kristensen, Phillip C. Saunders, David C. Logan, Bates Gill, Nancy W. Gallagher, Brad Roberts