The Defense Department’s 2024 China Military Power Report: A Conversation with Dr. Ely Ratner and...

This ChinaPower Podcast is a recording of an event we held on December 18th, 2024 on the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) 2024 report on the Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China (PRC)-commonly known as the China Military Power Report (CMPR).
Required every year by Congress for over 20 years, the CMPR offers an authoritative assessment of the PRC's national strategies and its regional and global ambitions. It also outlines key developments pertaining to People’s Liberation Army (PLA) modernization and the expansion of its nuclear, cyberspace, and space capabilities. What are the major takeaways from the 2024 report and what is the current assessment of China’s military power? How are China’s defense and security strategies evolving, and what does it mean for the United States? Joining us to highlight the report’s findings are Dr. Ely S. Ratner, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs and Dr. Michael S. Chase, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia.

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Chinese thinking is probably that having open lines of communication and well defined de-escalation protocols would reduce the initial hours of confusion, uncertainty, and hesitation for team blue in the event of a genuine full-commitment surprise attack.

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Love this transparency!

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Where could we get a copy of these reports?

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if you google the name of the video the pdf for the report was about the 5th link down media (dot) defense (dot) gov

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Google it