You Ji
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | You Ji |
| GIVEN NAMES | You |
| FAMILY NAME | Ji |
| SIGNATURE | JI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Chinese Communist Party Endeavors to Institutionalize Armed Power: Civilian Control of China’s Central Military Commission
The Central Military Commission (CMC) is a unique institution of power in China’s political system. Time and again it has represented the ultimate authority of national leadership, as seen in the cases of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin, who had a strong say in state affairs simply by retaining CMC chairmanship without other Party portfolios. The CMC is unique in that it is both a formal instrument of power and an unparalleled mechanism of informal…
All for Winning the Next War: The Socio-Political and Technological Attributes of PLA Modernization through Continuing Force Transformation
Military modernization is a complicated process of force building by which a nation fulfills its defense requirements. Professionally, it is measured by the sophistication of the combat capabilities of a country’s armed forces as defined by the effectiveness of strategies and doctrines, commanding heights, soldier training, organization and structure, and the jointness of services and weapons systems. Technological progress is a primary driver fo…
The Enduring Sino–Russian Strategic Relations of Mutual Dependence—The Attribute of Military Cooperation
Beijing's relatively ambiguous response to the Ukraine War has tested how firm the Sino—Russian strategic partnership is. This article aims to decipher the endurance and complexity of Sino-Russian strategic relations by evaluating the nature and dynamics of Sino-Russian defense cooperation amid the worsening international environment against both countries. By examining two Sino-Russian Joint Exercises and analyzing their joint military patrols, …
China’s Techno-Economic Statecraft Amid US-China Strategic Rivalry: AI and the “New Whole-State System”
How Xi Jinping Dominates Elite Party Politics: A Case Study of Civil-Military Leadership Formation
All supreme CCP leaders encounter an inherent contradiction between maintaining a necessary level of power sharing (collective leadership) while ensuring their own effective control over overall Party politics. This article uses case studies of the formation of the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Central Military Commissions, as well as of the Nineteenth Politburo Standing Committee, to decipher how Xi Jinping has handled the contradiction by estab…
Civil-Military Relations: Control and Effectiveness Across Regimes
How does civilian control affect military effectiveness? Can a balance be achieved between the two? In-country experts address these questions through a set of rich comparative case studies. Covering the spectrum from democracies to authoritarian regimes, they explore the nexus of control and effectiveness to reveal its importance for national security and the legitimacy of both political order and the military institution
The Sino-US ‘Cat-and-Mouse’ Game Concerning Freedom of Navigation and Flights: An Analysis of Chinese Perspectives
US surveillance operations in the Chinese Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and entry into the 12 NM of China-held reefs in the South China Sea have met with aggressive People’s Liberation Army intercepts. This ‘cat-and-mouse’ game is a symptom of the structural conflict of interests that define enduring Sino-US tension. On the other hand, both Washington and Beijing have tried to strike a subtle balance between maintaining a broadly-based bilateral …
China’s National Security Commission: Theory, evolution and operations
The establishment of the National Security Commission (NSC) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a major regrouping of the top CCP power structure, a ‘New Deal’ in Xi Jinping’s endeavor to revitalize China. In full operation it will reshape Beijing’s national security (NS) decision-making process concerning the formulation of national security strategies, crisis management at home and abroad, coordination of national security policies and acti…
The PLA and Diplomacy: Unraveling myths about the military role in foreign policy making
10.1080/10670564.2013.832526
The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds . David M. Lampton
Imagined Enemies: China Prepares for Uncertain War . John Wilson Lewis , Xue Litai
China's anti-secession law and the risk of war in the Taiwan Strait
The product of a ten-year debate, China's Anti-Secession Law assures Taiwan and the world that peaceful independence is a myth. The law explains that China is building military superiority to prevent Taiwan's de jure independence. This threat is matched by peace inducements, mainly economic integration, to increase the cost of independence. The ASL channels hard and soft approaches into one legal framework. Yet to this author, the ASL is fundamen…
A Poverty of Riches: New Challenges and Opportunities in PLA Research . James Mulvernon , Andrew Yang
East Asian Community: A new platform for Sino-Japanese cooperation and contention
China has been lukewarm to Japan's East Asian Community (EAC) proposal since the idea was raised officially in 2002.1 Rhetorically, however, Beijing has expressed its support.2 In April 2004 the Ch
Maritime Security between China and Southeast Asia: Conflict and Cooperation in the Making of Regional Order . Liselotte Odgaard
Profile: The Heir Apparent
People's Liberation Army after Next . Colonel Susan Puska
China and the People's Liberation Army: Great Power or Struggling Developing State
Introduction: Developing World Security Priorities and the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) The Goal: Overhauling China's Military Strategy The Reality: Implementation and Force Structure The Military-Industrial Complex and the Ephemeral Hunt for Profits Trends in Chinese Defense Spending and the Illusive Goal of Modernization Conclusion: China and the Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific Region
Elite Politics in Contemporary China
The past half-century has seen many hopes raised and some dashed, a succession of fears and false alarms, and both triumphs and calamities that were almost entirely unexpected. This work offers a short but sweeping history of world politics since 1945: America's postwar pre-eminence and the hopes that attended the creation of the United Nations the Cold War and the emergence of a volatile Third World economic transformations and the twin threat o…
China's Military Faces the Future . James R. Lilley , David Shambaugh
Jiang Zemin's Command of the Military
China and North Korea: A fragile relationship of strategic convenience
The common view is that China is North Korea's ally. The two countries share a similar political system and considerable strategic interest in regional international relations. Indeed, this is true to a large extent. This paper, however, analyses the problems in the bilateral relations that are gradually eroding the strategic ties the two countries formed 50 years ago. Its central argument is that, in reality, beneath the surface of the alliance …
Gun Barrel Politics: Party-Army Relations in Mao's China . Fang Zhu
The Armed Forces of China
Nuclear power in the post‐cold war era: The development of China's nuclear strategy
The end of the Cold War has led the five nuclear powers to reconsider their nuclear strategies against a changed security environment. Although none of them has slowed down their modernization efforts, nuclear arsenals in the United States, Russia, Britain and France have been scaled down. In contrast, China has stepped up its nuclear weapons programs. This may enlarge its current weapons stock. More importantly, with technological upgrading, the…
China and North Korea: A fragile relationship of strategic convenience
The common view is that China is North Korea's ally. The two countries share a similar political system and considerable strategic interest in regional international relations. Indeed, this is true to a large extent. This paper, however, analyses the problems in the bilateral relations that are gradually eroding the strategic ties the two countries formed 50 years ago. Its central argument is that, in reality, beneath the surface of the alliance …
The PLA and Diplomacy: Unraveling myths about the military role in foreign policy making
10.1080/10670564.2013.832526
China’s National Security Commission: Theory, evolution and operations
The establishment of the National Security Commission (NSC) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a major regrouping of the top CCP power structure, a ‘New Deal’ in Xi Jinping’s endeavor to revitalize China. In full operation it will reshape Beijing’s national security (NS) decision-making process concerning the formulation of national security strategies, crisis management at home and abroad, coordination of national security policies and acti…
In search of blue water power: The PLA navy's maritime strategy in the 1990s
How Xi Jinping Dominates Elite Party Politics: A Case Study of Civil-Military Leadership Formation
All supreme CCP leaders encounter an inherent contradiction between maintaining a necessary level of power sharing (collective leadership) while ensuring their own effective control over overall Party politics. This article uses case studies of the formation of the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Central Military Commissions, as well as of the Nineteenth Politburo Standing Committee, to decipher how Xi Jinping has handled the contradiction by estab…
China’s Techno-Economic Statecraft Amid US-China Strategic Rivalry: AI and the “New Whole-State System”
China's anti-secession law and the risk of war in the Taiwan Strait
The product of a ten-year debate, China's Anti-Secession Law assures Taiwan and the world that peaceful independence is a myth. The law explains that China is building military superiority to prevent Taiwan's de jure independence. This threat is matched by peace inducements, mainly economic integration, to increase the cost of independence. The ASL channels hard and soft approaches into one legal framework. Yet to this author, the ASL is fundamen…
Profile: The Heir Apparent
Nuclear power in the post‐cold war era: The development of China's nuclear strategy
The end of the Cold War has led the five nuclear powers to reconsider their nuclear strategies against a changed security environment. Although none of them has slowed down their modernization efforts, nuclear arsenals in the United States, Russia, Britain and France have been scaled down. In contrast, China has stepped up its nuclear weapons programs. This may enlarge its current weapons stock. More importantly, with technological upgrading, the…
Making sense of war games in the Taiwan Strait
China's missile tests in March 1996 reflected a changing leadership consensus on the Taiwan issue. Although the goal to achieve reunification through peaceful means remains the basis for the consensus, there has emerged a new mainstream opinion that peaceful overture alone has become inadequate to reach the goal. This is especially true when Taiwan is believed to have acquired military technological edge over the PLA. The new policy direction is …
The Enduring Sino–Russian Strategic Relations of Mutual Dependence—The Attribute of Military Cooperation
Beijing's relatively ambiguous response to the Ukraine War has tested how firm the Sino—Russian strategic partnership is. This article aims to decipher the endurance and complexity of Sino-Russian strategic relations by evaluating the nature and dynamics of Sino-Russian defense cooperation amid the worsening international environment against both countries. By examining two Sino-Russian Joint Exercises and analyzing their joint military patrols, …
East Asian Community: A new platform for Sino-Japanese cooperation and contention
China has been lukewarm to Japan's East Asian Community (EAC) proposal since the idea was raised officially in 2002.1 Rhetorically, however, Beijing has expressed its support.2 In April 2004 the Ch
A Test Case for China ́s Defence and Foreign Policies
The South China Sea has increasingly assumed an important place in the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) contingency plans for limited war. This is largely due to China's claim to the Spratly Islands ? a sprawling archipelago which is contested in whole or in part by several other countries. The Spratlys constitute a significant test case for China's defence and foreign policies. Preparations for potential conflict over the Spratlys have already f…
Jiang Zemin's Formal and Informal Sources of Power and Chinese Elite Politics After 4 June 1989
Zhao Ziyang and the Politics of Inflation
In search of blue water power: The PLA navy's maritime strategy in the 1990s
Jiang Zemin's Formal and Informal Sources of Power and Chinese Elite Politics After 4 June 1989
The Military & Political Succession in China: Leadership, Institutions and Belief. Michael D. Swaine
The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China. Susan L. Shirk
A Test Case for China ́s Defence and Foreign Policies
The South China Sea has increasingly assumed an important place in the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) contingency plans for limited war. This is largely due to China's claim to the Spratly Islands ? a sprawling archipelago which is contested in whole or in part by several other countries. The Spratlys constitute a significant test case for China's defence and foreign policies. Preparations for potential conflict over the Spratlys have already f…
State and Society in China's Political Economy: The Cultural Dynamics of Socialist Reform. Chih-yu Shih
Taiwan in the Political Calculations of the Chinese Leadership
Making sense of war games in the Taiwan Strait
China's missile tests in March 1996 reflected a changing leadership consensus on the Taiwan issue. Although the goal to achieve reunification through peaceful means remains the basis for the consensus, there has emerged a new mainstream opinion that peaceful overture alone has become inadequate to reach the goal. This is especially true when Taiwan is believed to have acquired military technological edge over the PLA. The new policy direction is …
China's Air Force Enters the 21st Century . Kenneth Allen , Glenn Krumel , Jonathan Pollack
Nuclear power in the post‐cold war era: The development of China's nuclear strategy
The end of the Cold War has led the five nuclear powers to reconsider their nuclear strategies against a changed security environment. Although none of them has slowed down their modernization efforts, nuclear arsenals in the United States, Russia, Britain and France have been scaled down. In contrast, China has stepped up its nuclear weapons programs. This may enlarge its current weapons stock. More importantly, with technological upgrading, the…
The Revolution in Military Affairs and the Evolution of China ́s Strategic Thinking
The in military affairs has inspired the People's Liberation Army to formulate its long-term modernization guidelines. To the PLA, RMA is the world standard and future trend for a powerful military. The very fact that China has little capability to cope with an RMA-type of war prods the PLA to study RMA and to apply, where it can, its principles. China will continue to reform the PLA along the lines of RMA, gradually streamlining and digitizing i…
The Revolution in Military Affairs and the Evolution of China ́s Strategic Thinking
Gun Barrel Politics: Party-Army Relations in Mao's China . Fang Zhu
The Armed Forces of China
China's Military Faces the Future . James R. Lilley , David Shambaugh
Jiang Zemin's Command of the Military
China and North Korea: A fragile relationship of strategic convenience
The common view is that China is North Korea's ally. The two countries share a similar political system and considerable strategic interest in regional international relations. Indeed, this is true to a large extent. This paper, however, analyses the problems in the bilateral relations that are gradually eroding the strategic ties the two countries formed 50 years ago. Its central argument is that, in reality, beneath the surface of the alliance …
Profile: The Heir Apparent
People's Liberation Army after Next . Colonel Susan Puska
China and the People's Liberation Army: Great Power or Struggling Developing State
Introduction: Developing World Security Priorities and the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) The Goal: Overhauling China's Military Strategy The Reality: Implementation and Force Structure The Military-Industrial Complex and the Ephemeral Hunt for Profits Trends in Chinese Defense Spending and the Illusive Goal of Modernization Conclusion: China and the Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific Region
Elite Politics in Contemporary China
The past half-century has seen many hopes raised and some dashed, a succession of fears and false alarms, and both triumphs and calamities that were almost entirely unexpected. This work offers a short but sweeping history of world politics since 1945: America's postwar pre-eminence and the hopes that attended the creation of the United Nations the Cold War and the emergence of a volatile Third World economic transformations and the twin threat o…
Maritime Security between China and Southeast Asia: Conflict and Cooperation in the Making of Regional Order . Liselotte Odgaard
China's anti-secession law and the risk of war in the Taiwan Strait
The product of a ten-year debate, China's Anti-Secession Law assures Taiwan and the world that peaceful independence is a myth. The law explains that China is building military superiority to prevent Taiwan's de jure independence. This threat is matched by peace inducements, mainly economic integration, to increase the cost of independence. The ASL channels hard and soft approaches into one legal framework. Yet to this author, the ASL is fundamen…
A Poverty of Riches: New Challenges and Opportunities in PLA Research . James Mulvernon , Andrew Yang
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