U. S. -China Economic and Security Revie

2018 ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS of the U. S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION This Report responds to the mandate "to monitor, investigate, and report to Congress on the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC)." The Commission reached a broad and bipartisan consensus on the contents of this Report, with all members voting unanimously to approve and submit it to Congress. This year's hearings and roundtable included: 1. China's Belt and Road Initiative: Five Years Later; 2. China's Military Reforms and Modernization: Implications for the United States; 3. China, the United States, and Next Generation Connectivity; 4. China's Relations with U. S. Allies and Partners in Europe and the Asia Pacific; 5. China's Role in North Korea Contingencies; 6. China's Agricultural Policies: Trade, Investment, Safety, and Innovation; and U. S. Tools to Address Chinese Market Distortions. The Commission received a number of briefings by executive branch agencies and the Intelligence Community, including both unclassified and classified briefings on China's military modernization, China's defense and security activities in the Indo-Pacific, China's relations with northeast Asia, Chinese threats to the Department of Defense's supply chain; China's focus on megaprojects; U. S. critical telecommunications infrastructure and money laundering. Why buy a book you can download for free? We print this book so you don't have to. First you gotta find a good clean (legible) copy and make sure it's the latest version (not always easy). Some documents found on the web are missing some pages or the image quality is so poor, they are difficult to read. We look over each document carefully and replace poor quality images by going back to the original source document. We proof each document to make sure it's all there - including all changes. If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it's just a 10-page document, no problem, but if it's 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. It's much more cost-effective to just order the latest version from Amazon.com This book includes original commentary which is copyright material. Note that government documents are in the public domain. We print these large documents as a service so you don't have to. The books are compact, tightly-bound, full-size (8 1/2 by 11 inches), with large text and glossy covers. 4th Watch Publishing Co. is a HUBZONE SDVOSB. https: //usgovpub.com

The Chinese Communist Party believes there are several threats that exist along China's maritime periphery. These threat perceptions have a defined geographic focus and are informed by fears about Taiwan independence, challenges to China's claims in the South China Sea, and Japan's administrative control of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. They result in a set of potential "regional hotspots" for which the People's Liberation Army is actively preparing for contingency operations. These operations, if executed, could lead to armed conflicts between China and U. S. allies, friends and partners in the Asia Pacific and could trigger a U. S. military response. Authoritative documents such as China's 2015 defense white paper identify several missions tasked to the PLA that directly apply to hotspot contingencies, such as safeguarding security and sovereignty along China's land and maritime borders, which would include claims to features in the East and South China Seas and "unification of the motherland," code for preventing Taiwan's independence. To prepare for a potential crisis along China's maritime periphery, senior Chinese leaders have directed the PLA to develop contingency plans and expand its military capabilities. However, one of the most pressing concerns faced by PLA planners is the consideration that the U. S. will intervene in a conflict. This consideration has led the PLA to pursue a robust military modernization program that includes developing long-range strike capabilities to engage an adversary farther from China's coast, improving training to conduct joint warfighting operations and preparing to fight in new security domains such as space and cyberspace.

The first panel will address censorship and Internet controls within China. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) relies on what is known as the Great Firewall, an assortment of sophisticated electronic censorship and surveillance mechanisms, to monitor online activity within China's borders. It prevents web users within China from accessing foreign ideas, which the Party regards as an ideological threat. It also allows the CCP to maintain effective control over the news by blocking sensitive stories. The second panel will focus on Beijing's efforts to manipulate global coverage of China, including its attempts to increase its own soft power by gaining influence over the American film industry. The Chinese leadership sees American soft power as a major obstacle to China's rise. To counter this aspect of "soft power," the CCP seeks not only to prohibit negative portrayals of China in popular culture but also to curtail positive depictions of the United States while incentivizing Hollywood to portray China positively. Acquisitions by Chinese companies of cornerstone companies in the U. S. film industry have economic and security implications for the United States. We will also hear about the current situation for journalists in China, both foreign and Chinese, who have in recent years been subjected to markedly increased harassment by the Chinese government. The third panel today will address Beijing's views on norms in cyberspace and China's cyber warfare strategy. The Chinese government advocates for a concept known as "Internet sovereignty" in which countries have the right to control their part of cyberspace. And it also asserts that Internet governance should be the purview of national governments and no other actors, which really contrasts with the "multi-stakeholder" model that the United States and certainly others in Europe currently use and is in place. And it would mean that the Internet is no longer a virtual common. The Chinese government has declared that cyberspace and space are now the "new commanding heights in strategic competition." That means war starts there.