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Week Three: Neighborhood Bully?
Guest: Dean Cheng, Heritage Foundation
With guest Dean Cheng, a research associate and analyst of China's
military with the Heritage Foundation, this session will delve into
China's increasingly assertive territorial claims against its
neighbors. This comes comes against the backdrop of the
Peoples Liberation Army's modernization and rapidly expanding
military budget that has grown to more than $120 billion today.The
Obama administration has responded with its own “pivot” to Asia
after the preoccupation with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. What
are China's intentions? What are the prospects for outright
hostilities? What are the chances for improved Sino-U.S.
military-to-military relations? And what should be America's
response to this new challenge in the Pacific?