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TFTC- What China Wants

People ask “What are China's long-term goals? What does it mean to return to the center of the world stage? What does China want when it says it wants to be a great power?” The answer is simple China wants the same place in the world as the United States currently occupies.Click here for the full

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CASI Quarterly update #4 for 2025

CASI Quarterly update#4 for 2025Friends of CASI, As we close out 2025, we are happy to wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy New Year, and general Season’s Greetings. As with many of us, the shutdown took a little wind out of our sails, thankfully we had several

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ITOW: Lectures from Course Book on the Taiwan Strait's Military Geography

Translations from Chinese source documentsThe “In Their Own Words” series is dedicated to translations of Chinese documents in order to help non-Mandarin speaking audiences access and understand Chinese thinking. CASI would like to thank all of those involved in this effort. In the “In Their Own

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Intermediate Flight Training Shifting to Aviation University

In June the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) broadcast a television news report showing students at the PLA Air Force’s (PLAAF) Aviation University training in an intermediate flight trainer. The university previously only conducted basic flight training, whereas intermediate flight training

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TFTC: Borscht vs Jiaozi

Thoughts from the Chairman.......Although China and Russia certainly have overlapping geostrategic interests, and have proclaimed that they have a friendship without limits, these are not the same countries, and these are not the same political systems. Each leader has his own unique style and each

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Aerial Refueling Added to Flight Academies’ Transition Training Curriculum

In August 2025 the television news program National Defense and Military Affairs at Noon, which is produced by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), broadcast a segment showing flight instructors at the PLA Air Force’s (PLAAF) Xi’an Flight Academy undergoing training in aerial refueling. This

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CASI's PLA Fundamentals course 3-5 February, 2026

PLA Fundamentals CASI’s PLA Fundamentals Course: We continue to have great interest in, and turn out for, our

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Remote Basing: People’s Liberation Army Logistics on the Tibetan Plateau

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is at the forefront of China’s efforts to defend its extensive land border with India and maintain firm control over Tibet. As both China and India have expanded their respective infrastructural and military basing networks along the Line of Actual Control (the

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China's Defense S&T Key Lab System - 2025 Update

This report represents an updated and significantly expanded revision of The PRC State & Defense Laboratory System Part Two: Defense S&T Key Lab Directory, which was released in early 2023. That report was in turn the second part of The PRC State & Defense Laboratory System: An Overview, which

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TFTC: Friendlies before the World Cup

China has spent the last thirty years laser focused on modernizing the military, with one goal in mind, to catch up to the United States and its allies and partners. However, the armed wing of the Communist Party, the People’s Liberation Army, hasn’t fought a war since the 1979/1980s border war

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The Evolution of China’s Nuclear Forces

In recent years, China has embarked on the most significant transformation of its nuclear forces in its history. U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) projections indicate the People’s Republic of China (PRC) could field over 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030.[i] The scope and speed of this buildup have

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Thoughts from the Chairman

Thoughts from the ChairmanSeries IntroductionIntroductionThe “Thoughts from the Chairman” series is intended to be thought provoking and encourage discussions, but is in no way meant to be authoritative. In some cases, the “Thoughts” will be complete works of fiction, though based on years of

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China’s Commercial SSA Company and “TLE Localization”

A Chinese commercial space company recently began providing services that merge the functions of the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF’s) Unified Data Library (UDL) and the United States Department of Commerce’s Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS). China is increasingly self-reliant in the space

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CASI Quarterly update #3 for 2025

CASI Quarterly update #3 for 2025Click here for the PDF versionFriends of CASI, This quarter once again saw a lot of work, a lot of travel, and a lot of research, along with some turnover.Stay tuned for more information on the 2026 CASI Conference in the coming months.CASI Researchers

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Ten Takeaways from the Russia-Ukraine War and Their Implications for a Taiwan Conflict

The Russia-Ukraine war has been called the “first drone war,” the “first commercial space war,” and the “first full-scale cyber war.” The Russia-Ukraine war, however, defies simple generalizations. Characterized by trench warfare, nearly static front lines, and tank battles where precision

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PLA’s New-Quality Forces: The Information Operations Group at the 2025 Military Parade

On September 3, 2025, China held the 17th military parade since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, which featured a multi-dimensional display of 45 formations, including marching formations, equipment drive-bys, and aerial flyovers. Following Xi Jinping’s directive to accelerate

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Hiding and Biding No More: Military Parade Intended to Send Message that China is World Leader Capable of Deterring and Defeating the United States

The September 3rd Victory Day parade in Beijing showcased an array of military capabilities intended to demonstrate the fruits of its decades-long modernization effort. The parade, in conjunction with the Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tianjin prior to the parade, sought to

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ITOW: China's National Security in the New Era (2025)

May 12th, 2025 China released its white paper on "China's National Security in the New Era". This is the translation of that document.The “In Their Own Words” series is dedicated to translations of Chinese documents in order to help non-Mandarin speaking audiences access and understand Chinese

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Beijing’s Response to REFORPAC Projects Calm Confidence

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) conducted Resolute Force Pacific (REFORPAC) 2025 across the Indo-Pacific theater from July 8 to August 8, 2025. Beijing’s response to the exercise was muted, as it was to what had been the largest exercise in the region, Mobility Guardian 2023. Beijing’s response to

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PRC Media Responses to Pakistani J-10's Combat Success

On 9 May 2025, a Reuters report claimed that at least one Indian Air Force Rafale combat aircraft was shot down by a Pakistani pilot flying an export variant of the Chinese J-10 fighter.1 The defeat of a leading Western combat aircraft by a People’s Republic of China (PRC) indigenously-produced

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TFTC- What China Wants

CASI Quarterly update #4 for 2025

ITOW: Lectures from Course Book on the Taiwan Strait's Military Geography

Intermediate Flight Training Shifting to Aviation University

TFTC: Borscht vs Jiaozi

Aerial Refueling Added to Flight Academies’ Transition Training Curriculum

CASI's PLA Fundamentals course 3-5 February, 2026

Remote Basing: People’s Liberation Army Logistics on the Tibetan Plateau

China's Defense S&T Key Lab System - 2025 Update

TFTC: Friendlies before the World Cup

The Evolution of China’s Nuclear Forces

Thoughts from the Chairman

China’s Commercial SSA Company and “TLE Localization”

CASI Quarterly update #3 for 2025

Ten Takeaways from the Russia-Ukraine War and Their Implications for a Taiwan Conflict

PLA’s New-Quality Forces: The Information Operations Group at the 2025 Military Parade

Hiding and Biding No More: Military Parade Intended to Send Message that China is World Leader Capable of Deterring and Defeating the United States

ITOW: China's National Security in the New Era (2025)

Beijing’s Response to REFORPAC Projects Calm Confidence

PRC Media Responses to Pakistani J-10's Combat Success