The Chinese Nat Sec System

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

The Chinese Communist Party conceives of security as not only protecting national land borders, maritime sovereignty rights, and bringing Taiwan back into the fold, but also protecting the internal stability of the People's Republic, ensuring the continued growth of the Chinese economy protecting the legitimacy, resiliency of the Party, and ensuring dangerous ideas, and propaganda do not erode CCP effectiveness at governance. To ensure this security the CCP has erected a system of governance, instituted a national security commission, developed over time a reformed military force structure and processes, put in place new law enforcement and prosecution procedures, strengthened its intelligence collection and surveillance system, and has put in place a robust system of military contingency planning, crisis decision making, and policy implementation. This class will explore this system in detail, using case studies, and reading the latest China analytic scholarship on these structures, processes and challenges.