Monday, March 17, 2025
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EDT
Location: Healy Hall Riggs Library
China's military has entered a new era. It has acquired modern weapons to rival the world’s finest, undergone a massive restructuring under Xi Jinping, and been on the frontlines of territorial disputes with Japan, India, Vietnam, and the Philippines. It is readying forces to be able to seize Taiwan sometime in the next decade. It aims to be a "world-class" military on par with the United States. Join co-authors Phillip Saunders and Joel Wuthnow in conversation with Dennis Wilder and Maryanne Kivlehan-Wise for a discussion of their new book China’s Quest for Military Supremacy (2025).
This event is co-sponsored by Georgetown University’s Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues and the Asian Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
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Phillip Saunders is director of the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs within the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University. He has been a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies since January 2004. Dr. Saunders served as director of studies for the Center for Strategic Research from 2010 to 2012, with responsibility for supervising the center’s research on regional, global, and functional security issues.
Joel Wuthnow is an adjunct professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is also a senior research fellow in the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs within the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University. His research areas include Chinese foreign and security policy, Chinese military affairs, U.S.-China relations, and strategic developments in East Asia.
Maryanne Kivlehan-Wise is the director of the China Studies program at Center for Naval Analyses (CNA). She has over a decade of experience directing projects and conducting research and analysis on Chinese military and strategic issues. Her research interests include Chinese military modernization and doctrinal development, Chinese politics and foreign policy, PRC economic statecraft, PRC media issues, strategic communications, and information operations.
Dennis Wilder (moderator) is a senior fellow for the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown University, where he previously served as the managing director. Wilder holds a B.A. from Kalamazoo College and an M.S. in foreign service from Georgetown University.