Asia Policy 4 (July 2007)
This issue of Asia Policy includes contributions by David M. Lampton, Cheng Li, Pieter Bottelier, and Fenggang Yang to a roundtable exploring possible futures for China in the year 2020; a roundtable of scholars and policy analysts responding to the question of sizing the PLA; and a book review roundtable on Kenneth B. Pyle’s Japan Rising and Richard J. Samuels’ Securing Japan.
Table of Contents
Roundtables
China in the Year 2020
Mercy Kuo, Andrew Marble, David M. Lampton, Cheng Li, Pieter Bottelier and Fenggang Yang
Sizing the Chinese Military
Andrew Scobell, Roy Kamphausen, Ellis Joffe, Michael R. Chambers, David M. Finkelstein, Cortez A. Cooper III, Dennis J. Blasko, Bernard D. Cole, Michael McDevitt, Phillip C. Saunders, Erik Quam and Larry Wortzel
Articles
Militant Recruitment in Pakistan: A New Look at the Militancy-Madrasah Connection
C. Christine Fair
China’s Fifteen-Year Plan for Science and Technology: An Assessment
Sylvia Schwaag Serger and Magnus Breidne
Managing the U.S.-China Foreign Economic Dialogue: Building Greater Coordination and New Habits of Consultation
Jean A. Garrison
Book Review Roundtable
Kenneth B. Pyle’s Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose/Richard J. Samuels’ Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
T. J. Pempel, Mike M. Mochizuki, Ming Wan, Christopher W. Hughes, Richard J. Samuels and Kenneth B. Pyle