Interpreting China's Grand Strategy

China's Security Problem - The Historical Context - China's Current "Calculative" Strategy: Features and Implications - Factors Shaping China's Calculative Security Strategy - The Major Guiding Tenets and Policies of China's Calculative Security Strategy - The Calculative Strategy: Benefits and Risks - China Faces the Future: The Far Term - Assessing the "Natural" Longevity of the Calculative Strategy - Beyond The Calculative Strategy

Michael D. Swaine (Ph.D., Political Science, Harvard University) is a senior political scientist and research director of the RAND Center for Asia-Pacific Policy whose interests include China's foreign and security policy and decisionmaking process, Chinese domestic politics, Chinese military modernization, and Sino-U.S. strategic relations. Ashley J. Tellis (Ph.D., University of Chicago, Political Science) is a senior policy analyst at RAND who works on international relations theory, military strategy and proliferation issues, South Asian politics, and U.S.-Asian security relations.