Chinese Defense and Strategic Innovation Policy Issues

The Executive Training Course on Chinese Defense and Strategic Innovation Policy Issues examines the relationship between national security, defense modernization, technological innovation, industrialization, and China’s rise as a world power. Of central interest is how China is mobilizing and applying its economic, political, strategic, corporate, financial, intellectual, industrial, and scientific capabilities in conjunction with leveraging external resources to achieve its grand ambition of catching up technologically with the world’s advanced military powers within the next 1–2 decades.

The course will incorporate the most recent developments taking place in China’s defense, dual-use, and strategic science, technology, innovation, and industrial domains. The course will be led by Tai Ming Cheung, co-director of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) and a professor at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Cheung has written numerous books and articles dealing with Chinese defense innovation, military modernization, science and technology policy, and political economy of security issues.

For a more detailed course overview, click here. For the application form and registration instructions, click here.

Application deadline: November 12, 2026

Questions? Contact Marie Thiveos Stewart at mthiveos@ucsd.edu.