Rise of China
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The PRC’s Shenlong (‘Divine Dragon’) Space Plane and the Pentagon’s Assessment of China’s Military Space Program
- May 12, 2012
- Asia
- China
- China 2030
- China's Military
- China's Space Program
- Chinese Military Power
- Chinese Space Program
- Chinese Technology
- Cold War
- Communist Party of China
- Defense budget
- Department of Defense
- Divine Dragon
- East Asia
- H6-K
- Military of the People's Republic of China report
- Pentagon
- People's Liberation Army
- People's Republic of China
- PRC
- Rise of China
- Shenlong
- Soviet Military Report
- Space plane
- Space Program
- United States
The Pentagon produces an annual report about the People’s Republic of China’s military with regard to its capabilities in space. This report is similar to a Cold War-era document published by the Department of Defense titled Soviet Military Power (SMP), a mix of propaganda showing photographs and illustrations of future Soviet weaponry as well as a […]
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State Capitalism: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.
Ten years after China’s official emergence as a world economic super power with its joining the World Trade Organisation, Chinese state-owned industries are still as powerful and influential as ever. This heavy involvement on the part of the Chinese state in its economy is a source of criticism against the regime for many of its […]
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Russia’s Plans for Renewed Super Power Status Hampered By Demographics and Economics.
Vladmir Putin will transfer from the Prime Minister’s seat to the President’s in 2012 after current Russian President Medvedev’s term is over. Putin has often been quoted expressing his admiration and nostalgia for Russia’s past, and this has found expression in foreign policy overtures to form both bilateral unions, such as that proposed between Russia […]
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