Hudson to Release New China Study

On the heels of President Bush’s tour of Asia Hudson Institute will release its analysis of China’s growing economy and military power. The study, China’s New Great Leap Forward: High Technology and Military Power in the Next Half-Century, addresses the growing scientific and technological sophistication of China’s economy and military and, accordingly, the implications for broad U.S. national security interests.

As U.S. foreign policy has shifted in focus since September 11 overwhelmingly toward the war against terror and in support of democratization in the Greater Middle East and Central Asia, the prospect of China’s emergence as a peer competitor to long-standing U.S. technological leadership, though widely discussed, has not been adequately analyzed. China’s New Great Leap Forward seeks to encourage serious discussion among both the general public and policymakers about the challenges of China’s anticipated development of weapons of greater complexity and power.

View the full report here: http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/China_Great_Leap_Forward.pdf