Bates Gill
Dr. Bates Gill holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A specialist in East Asian foreign policy and politics, Dr. Gill focuses primarily on China’s domestic transformation, China’s regional diplomacy, and US-China relations.
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Article in ThePrint Cites China Brief Article and Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer
A recent article in ThePrint, a prominent online Indian newspaper, cited multiple Jamestown sources in order to shed light on Chinese intelligence agencies and the Strategic Support Force. The piece,...
The People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force: Update 2019
Introduction China established the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Strategic Support Force (SSF) (zhanlue zhiyuan budui, 战略支援部队) in late 2015 as part of a sweeping military reform that overhauled the PLA’s...
More Strait Talk: Ten Years After the Taiwan Missile Crisis
On July 21, 1995, in response to Taiwan’s then-President Lee Teng-hui’s controversial visit to his alma mater in the United States, China fired a volley of nuclear-capable missiles into the...
TAIWAN’S ELECTION RESULTS: GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, OR NO NEWS?
The good news about the Taiwan Legislative Yuan elections last month, from the perspective of Beijing, Washington, and at least half of the Taiwan electorate, is that nothing will happen....