China's Quest for Foreign Technology

Beyond Espionage
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-47359-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 725 g

Reihe: Asian Security Studies

This book analyzes China’s foreign technology acquisition activity and how this has helped its rapid rise to superpower status.

Since 1949, China has operated a vast and unique system of foreign technology spotting and transfer aimed at accelerating civilian and military development, reducing the cost of basic research, and shoring up its power domestically and abroad—without running the political risks borne by liberal societies as a basis for their creative developments. While discounted in some circles as derivative and consigned to perpetual catch-up mode, China’s "hybrid" system of legal, illegal, and extralegal import of foreign technology, combined with its indigenous efforts, is, the authors believe, enormously effective and must be taken seriously. Accordingly, in this volume, 17 international specialists combine their scholarship to portray the system’s structure and functioning in heretofore unseen detail, using primary Chinese sources to demonstrate the perniciousness of the problem in a manner not likely to be controverted. The book concludes with a series of recommendations culled from the authors’ interactions with experts worldwide.

This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese politics, US foreign policy, intelligence studies, science and technology studies, and International Relations in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hannas, William C.

Tatlow, Didi Kirsten

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Nachrichtendienste, Geheimdienste
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Section I: China’s transfer venues 1. Chinese technology transfer—an introduction William C. Hannas and Huey-Meei Chang 2. Serve the motherland while working overseas Andrew Spear 3. China’s talent programs Jeffrey Stoff Section II: The system in operation 4. Foreign technology through commerce Karen Sutter 5. The myth of the stateless global society Anna B. Puglisi 6. Targeting defense technologies James Mulvenon and Chenny Zhang Section III: China’s worldwide transfer networks 7. Europe: a technology transfer mosaic Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Hinnerk Feldwisch-Drentrup and Ryan Fedasiuk 8. Technology transfer from Germany Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Hinnerk Feldwisch-Drentrup and Ryan Fedasiuk 9. Japan and South Korea William C. Hannas and Huey-Meei Chang Section IV: Case studies 10. Sino-foreign research collaboration Jeffrey Stoff 11. China’s access to foreign AI technology William C. Hannas and Huey-Meei Chang 12. The Impact of China’s policies Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Greg Walton and Anna B. Puglisi Section V: Technology in the shadows 13. The People’s Liberation Army and foreign technology Elsa Kania and Peter Wood 14. Foreign technology and the surveillance state Dahlia Peterson 15. The United Front and technology transfer Alex Joske and Jeffrey Stoff Section VI: Managing the transfer problem 16. Chinese students, scholarship and US innovation Anna B. Puglisi 17. Economic espionage and trade secret theft cases in the US James Mulvenon 18. Mitigation efforts to date James Mulvenon, Didi Kirsten Tatlow and Alex Joske Conclusion William C. Hannas and Didi Kirsten Tatlow

Über Autor(innen)

William C. Hannas is Professor and Lead Analyst at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. Prior to this he was a member of the Central Intelligence Agency’s leadership cadre and a three-time recipient of its McCone Award.

Didi Kirsten Tatlow is Senior Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, Germany, and Senior Non-Resident Fellow at Project Sinopsis in Prague, Czech Republic.