This volume is an essential handbook for everyone from the lay reader to public leaders. It brings together an incredible group of talent to break down this highly complex and misunderstood area. This is precisely the type of thoughtful engagement and research needed right now on this critical topic.
Kathleen Claussen, Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of Law, USA
Seventeen experts of the mechanisms and political motives behind the Chinese Communist Partys legal, illegal and grayzone technology transfer efforts present a profound analysis of the systems structure, mode of operation, scale, and its consequences for liberal, open societies worldwide. Forcefully and convincingly, the book makes a strong argument that confronted with this particular challenge for global leadership, ignorance is harmful and remedying the situation is urgent.
Volker Stanzel, scholar at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, former German ambassador to China and Japan
The intentions and practices of the Chinese Communist Party are perhaps the most important things for policymakers and the general public to understand in todays world. Beyond Espionage provides excellent insight into these issues and should be required reading for anyone involved with technology policy, economic policy or national security.
Matthew Turpin, former Director for China, U.S. National Security Council
In todays contested world, it is vitally important for decision makers and researchers to have access to unfettered, apolitical analyses of otherwise highly politicized subjects. This book does that. It provides an insightful description of the nexus between technology and sovereignty, and undistorted analytical advice on issues that will reshape the global order in years to come.
Daniel P. Bagge, Cyber Attach of the Czech Republic to the United States
China is engaged in the most systematic, well-funded and comprehensive technology transfer strategy in history. There is no more important topic with implications for U.S. national security. This collection of expert perspectives is a must-read to place the current technology race with China in context.
Michael Brown, Co-Author of the DIUx Report and former Presidential Innovation Fellow
CHINAS QUEST FOR FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY
This book analyzes Chinas foreign technology acquisition activity and how this has helped its rapid rise to superpower status.
Since 1949, China has operated a vast and unique system of foreign technology spotting and transfer aimed at accelerating civilian and military development, reducing the cost of basic research, and shoring up its power domestically and abroadwithout running the political risks borne by liberal societies as a basis for their creative developments. While discounted in some circles as derivative and consigned to perpetual catch-up mode, Chinas hybrid system of legal, illegal, and extralegal import of foreign technology, combined with its indigenous efforts, is, the authors believe, enormously effective and must be taken seriously. Accordingly, in this volume, 17 international specialists combine their scholarship to portray the systems structure and functioning in heretofore unseen detail, using primary Chinese sources to demonstrate the perniciousness of the problem in a manner not likely to be controverted. The book concludes with a series of recommendations culled from the authors interactions with experts worldwide.
This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese politics, US foreign policy, intelligence studies, science and technology studies, and International Relations in general.
William C. Hannas is Professor and Lead Analyst at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. Prior to this he was a member of the Central Intelligence Agencys leadership cadre and a three-time recipient of its McCone Award.
Didi Kirsten Tatlow is Senior Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, Germany, and Senior Non-Resident Fellow at Project Sinopsis in Prague, Czech Republic.
Asian Security Studies
Series Editors: Sumit Ganguly,
Indiana University, USA,
Andrew Scobell,
Research and Development (RAND) Corporation, USA, and
Alice Ba,
University of Delaware, USA
Few regions of the world are fraught with as many security questions as Asia. Within this region it is possible to study great power rivalries, irredentist conflicts, nuclear and ballistic missile proliferation, secessionist movements, ethnoreligious conflicts and inter-state wars. This book series publishes the best possible scholarship on the security issues affecting the region, and includes detailed empirical studies, theoretically oriented case studies and policy-relevant analyses as well as more general works.
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CHINAS QUEST FOR FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY
Beyond Espionage
Edited by William C.Hannas and Didi Kirsten Tatlow
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Title: Chinas quest for foreign technology : beyond espionage / edited by William C. Hannas and Didi Kirsten Tatlow.
Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. | Series: Asian security studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020017064 (print) | LCCN 2020017065 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367473594 (hbk) | ISBN 9780367473570 (pbk) | ISBN 9781003035084 (ebk)
