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For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set aside. China has asserted its place among the global heavyweights, revealing its plans for pan-Asian dominance by building its navy, increasing territorial claims to areas like the South China Sea, and diplomatically bullying smaller players. Underlying this attitude is a strain of thinking that casts China's present-day actions in decidedly historical terms, as the path to restoring the dynastic glory of the past. If we understand how that historical identity relates to current actions, in ways ideological, philosophical, and even legal, we can learn to forecast just what kind of global power China stands to become--and to interact wisely with a future peer.

Strategic culture --- Geopolitics --- China --- Asia --- Foreign relations

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Strategic culture --- China --- Defenses. --- Armed Forces. --- Strategic aspects.

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Strategic culture --- China --- National security --- Foreign relations --- History

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Overview of the strategic perceptions of the People's Republic of China. Video series provides U.S. air pilots and policymakers information to better understand Chinese aerospace strategy, doctrine, operating concepts, capabilites, personnel, training, and organization.

Strategic culture --- Offensive (Military science) --- China. --- Operational readiness. --- China --- Defenses.

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1989 marked the beginning of a short but intense period of thorough geopolitical changes in the eastern part of Europe. The simultaneous weakening and liberalisation of the communist regime in the USSR led by Mikhail Gorbachev, the gradual limitation of Moscow's economic and political support but also its shrinking control over the countries in the Soviet bloc and domestic political crises inside these countries led to a rapid downfall of the communist governments in Central-Eastern Europe. The military, economic and political structures of the Soviet bloc were dissolved within a timeframe of just two years, and the Soviet Union itself ceased to exist in December 1991, to be replaced with fifteen new independent states. The Russian Federation became the main successor to the USSR as it, albeit seriously weakened, inherited a large section of the Soviet empire's resources and had to redefine its interests in the new post-Cold War European and global order that was being formed.

Military policy. --- Military readiness. --- Strategic culture. --- Russia (Federation) --- Europe --- Military relations