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    Preface: Republics, MR-1045-AF, 1999

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    This document provides context for a study analyzing China's grand strategy in the past, present, and future. The study aims to better understand Chinese strategic behavior and assess how it may evolve. The ultimate goal is to determine if and how China's grand strategy may challenge U.S. strategic interests. The study is part of a larger multiyear project on Chinese defense modernization sponsored by the U.S. Air Force.

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    This document provides context for a study analyzing China's grand strategy in the past, present, and future. The study aims to better understand Chinese strategic behavior and assess how it may evolve. The ultimate goal is to determine if and how China's grand strategy may challenge U.S. strategic interests. The study is part of a larger multiyear project on Chinese defense modernization sponsored by the U.S. Air Force.

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    This document provides context for a study analyzing China's grand strategy in the past, present, and future. The study aims to better understand Chinese strategic behavior and assess how it may evolve. The ultimate goal is to determine if and how China's grand strategy may challenge U.S. strategic interests. The study is part of a larger multiyear project on Chinese defense modernization sponsored by the U.S. Air Force.

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    Preface: Republics, MR-1045-AF, 1999

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    PREFACE

    This study identifies and analyzes the major factors determining


    Chinas grand strategypast, present, and futureto better under-
    stand the motivations behind Chinese strategic behavior and to as-
    sess how such behavior might evolve in the future, over both the near
    and long term. The ultimate purpose of such analysis is to more
    clearly understand whether, and in what manner, Chinas grand
    strategy might pose fundamental challenges to U.S. strategic inter-
    ests.

    The study was conducted as part of a larger, multiyear project on


    Chinese Defense Modernization and Its Implications for the U.S. Air
    Force. Other RAND reports from this project include:

    Mark Burles, Chinese Policy Toward Russia and the Central Asian
    Republics, MR-1045-AF, 1999.
    Zalmay M. Khalilzad, Abram N. Shulsky, Daniel L. Byman, Roger
    Cliff, David T. Orletsky, David Shlapak, and Ashley J. Tellis, The
    United States and a Rising China: Strategic and Military
    Implications, MR-1082-AF, 1999.

    Mark Burles and Abram N. Shulsky, Patterns in Chinas Use of


    Force: Evidence from History and Doctrinal Writings, MR-1160-
    AF, 2000.

    This project is conducted in the Strategy and Doctrine Program of


    Project AIR FORCE and was sponsored by the Deputy Chief of Staff
    for Air and Space Operations, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force (AF/XO),
    and the Director, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance,

    iii
    iv Interpreting Chinas Grand Strategy: Past, Present, and Future

    Headquarters, U.S. Air Force (AF/XOI). Comments are welcome and


    may be directed to the authors or to the project leader, Dr. Zalmay
    Khalilzad.

    PROJECT AIR FORCE


    Project AIR FORCE, a division of RAND, is the Air Force federally
    funded research and development center (FFRDC) for studies and
    analysis. It provides the Air Force with independent analyses of pol-
    icy alternatives affecting the development, employment, combat
    readiness, and support of current and future aerospace forces. Re-
    search is performed in four programs: Aerospace Force Develop-
    ment; Manpower, Personnel, and Training; Resource Management;
    and Strategy and Doctrine.

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