"Private" Chinese Aerospace Defense Companies
Author: Andrew W. Hull
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"As the United States continues it shift away from the Post 9-11 era toward the era of Great Power Strategic Competition, it is important to understand with whom we are competing and the manner in which they are competing with us. Too often, we view things only though our own 'lens' and forget to look at how our competitors see the world and organize within it. One of the biggest challenges that the U.S. faces today is trying to understand and dissect the military industrial base of China. The Chinese economic system, and indeed the entire structure and relationship between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the state organs of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and their "private and commercial" sector is vastly different than our own. Following the great divesture of "PLA Inc" by General Secretary Jiang Zemin in 1998, and after gaining admittance to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the CCP sought to remake the face of their military industrial base. The CCP transferred what had previously been People's Liberation Army (PLA) companies into 'private' or 'commercial' hands. The PRC made a number of reforms to their economic system, under the leadership of the Party. And they sought to make China appear to be moving toward a "Socialist Market Economy". The truth, however, was far more opaque. Going all the way back to the days of Mao Zedong, the CCP has maintained a policy of Military-Civil Integration. Most recently, Xi Jinping has sought to strengthen and deepen this policy, which now goes by the term Military-Civil Fusion. In both cases, the military is the first and primary part. This was largely lost on American companies and administrations during the 1990s and 2000s as China "opened up" and became entrenched in the modern global market and supply chain. However, under General Secretary Xi, this program has taken on more significance, as has the importance of Party Committees within 'private' and 'commercial' companies. CASI has a forthcoming report on the Military-Civil Fusion system. While by no means an exhaustive list, and companies continue to enter and leave the market all the time, this report is part of our series in trying to better understand the overall aerospace landscape within the PRC. While the first publication in this series, Lumbering Forward, sought to describe the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) involved in PRC aerospace, this publication seeks to simply describe the 'commercial' aerospace industry of the PRC."--Forward.