This is the first explanation and evaluation of Taiwan s defence forces and infrastructure. It examines not only Taiwan s armed forces, but also its Ministry of National Defence, personnel issues, and civil-military relations.
This book provides crucial base-line data and evaluation of one of the major participants in an ongoing crisis across the Taiwan Strait that has the potential of involving China and the United States in armed conflict. It examines the danger of a possibly nuclear conflict between China and the United States which would seriously disrupt all of East...
This is the first explanation and evaluation of Taiwan s defence forces and infrastructure. It examines not only Taiwan s armed forces, but also it...
CONTENTS Introduction Energy Sector Organization The Coal Industry The Oil Industry The Natural Gas Industry Other Energy Sources The Power Distribution System The Environment and the Energy Sector Energy in the Ninth and Tenth 5-Year Plans Defense of the Energy Sector Conclusion Endnotes
CONTENTS Introduction Energy Sector Organization The Coal Industry The Oil Industry The Natural Gas Industry Other Energy Sources The Power Distributi...
With the world's largest population, largest army, and fastest growing economy, China is now building a large modern navy to assure its status as Asia's predominant power. Yet the West is sorely limited in its knowledge of what could become its greatest naval opponent. This major new study -- the first in more than fifteen years -- provides the specialist and general reader alike with timely, authoritative information about China's developing navy and its quest for power. The author, a professor at the National War College, first looks at China's two-thousand-year-old maritime tradition and...
With the world's largest population, largest army, and fastest growing economy, China is now building a large modern navy to assure its status as Asia...
An unprecedented description of the critical energy situation throughout Asia, this book examines the energy resources, naval forces, and national strategies of the nations of that vast landmass, set against the priorities and resources of the United States. Energy security in Asia is crucial to the continued economic growth and hence the national security of the region's nations. Providing such security requires a combination of naval, political, and economic policies. Despite dramatic news coverage to the contrary, Cole's research reveals that the nations of the region-of which the...
An unprecedented description of the critical energy situation throughout Asia, this book examines the energy resources, naval forces, and national ...
In 1933, Alice Tisdale Hobart, wife of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey manager in Nanking, published Oil for the Lamps of China.1 Hobart had traveled widely in China and proved to be a very observant imperialist. Her fictional account of her experiences, not surprisingly, focused on the role played by Western businessmen, especially those engaged in importing and selling petroleum products. One thread that runs through her work is Chinese dependence on foreign sources of energy supplies, which remains the case today. This dependence on foreign- controlled sources means that Beijing's...
In 1933, Alice Tisdale Hobart, wife of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey manager in Nanking, published Oil for the Lamps of China.1 Hobart had tr...
