China's 2022 with Dean Cheng - on Midrats
in crisis, there is opportunity
While the world's eyes are focused on Russia and Ukraine - and probably will for the foreseeable future - the People's Republic of China is not standing still.
How can China use this moment to her advantage? What possible lessons can China take away from the Ukraine conflict so far, and perhaps more importantly, how should it impact how we and our allies look at China?
Returning to Midrats to discuss these and related questions this Sunday from 5-6pm Eastern will be our guest Dean Cheng.
Dean is the Senior Research Fellow for Chinese political and security affairs at the Asia Studies Center of The Heritage Foundation. He specializes in Chinese military and foreign policy, and has written extensively on Chinese military doctrine, technological implications of its space program, and “dual use” issues associated with China’s industrial and scientific infrastructure. He is the author of “Cyber Dragon: Inside China's Information Warfare and Cyber Operations.”
Before joining The Heritage Foundation, he was a senior analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses, a federally funded research and development center, and a senior analyst with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC, now Leidos), the Fortune 500 specialist in defense and homeland security. He has testified before Congress, spoken at the (American) National Defense University, US Air Force Academy, and the National Space Symposium, and been published in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
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Russian Ukraine operations in the Electricity Age will be studied by general staffs around the world. There is novelty there. Electricity makes almost zero both distance and desirability of large institutions conducting national affairs. Russians and CFP (Chinese Fascist Party, they have not been Communists for decades) already have and test operations in this multi-domain battlespace induced by the presence of electricity.
Military force not operating as Penta-Force (Space, Air, Cyber, Sea, Land) is doomed to failure by electricity's leveling effect. Furthermore, military force not operating in cooperation with diplomatic and financial force also is doomed to failure.
Americans are not used to thinking this way, find it annoying if not obnoxious. Yet, using it, Russia has cracked the back of the Euro-American Elites (fascists), de-dollar-ized the global trade system, and induced Bin Salman to tell the likes of Victoria Nuland and her Neo-Con husband Kagan that, while Saudis cannot tell Americans what to do, the reverse also is true.