FPRI Asia Program Conference
China Rising: Assessing China’s Economic and Military Power

China’s Power and Will: Two Views of the PRC’s Military Strength and Grand Strategy

March 12, 2007, Philadelphia, PA

Jonathan D. Pollack, U.S. Naval War College

June Teufel Dreyer, University of Miami and FPRI

Commentator:

Moderator:

Jonathan D. Pollack is professor of Asian and Pacific Studies, chairman of the Strategic Research Department, and chair of the Asia-Pacific Studies Group at the Naval War College. Before joining the War College faculty, he was affiliated with the RAND Corporation. Dr. Pollack has published widely on China’s political and strategic roles, the international politics of Northeast Asia, U.S. policy in Asia and the Pacific, and Chinese technological and military development.

June Teufel Dreyer, FPRI Senior Fellow, is a professor of political science at the University of Miami. Prof. Dreyer has done field research in China, Taiwan, and Japan and has served as Chief Far East Specialist for the Library of Congress and as Asia advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations. She has published numerous books and articles on such topics as ethnic minorities in China, the Chinese military, and Asia-Pacific security issues; and is the author of a general book on China, China’s Political System: Modernization and Tradition.