Chinese Defense and Strategic Innovation Policy Training Program

The Executive Training Course on Chinese Defense and Strategic Innovation Policy examines the relationship between national security, defense modernization, technological innovation, 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, 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 incorporates the most recent developments taking place in China’s defense, dual-use, and strategic science, technology, and innovation domains, including:

• Xi Jinping’s ‘Military Strengthening’ strategic thinking and its role in guiding the development and implementation of military strategy and weapons development.
• New initiatives to promote military-civil fusion.
• The adoption of new medium and long term science and technology and defense modernization development plans including the 14^th Five Year Plan and 2021-2035 Science and Technology Development Plan.
• Mobilizing the Chinese system to support the development of high priority programs.
• Economic and financial dimensions of this ambitious techno-security transformation.
• Case studies of important areas such as hypersonics and high performance computing.

The course will be led by Tai Ming Cheung, director of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation 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 more details on the course, how to apply, and fees, please contact Marie Thiveos Stewart at mthiveos@ucsd.edu.