China's Quest for Foreign Technology: Beyond Espionage

This book analyzes China's foreign technology acquisition activity and how it has helped its rapid rise to superpower status. It combines legal, illegal, and extralegal import of foreign technology with indigenous efforts and concludes with recommendations. It is of interest to students of Chinese politics, US foreign policy, intelligence studies, science and technology studies, and International Relations.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 350 pages
\n Publication date: 23 September 2020
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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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. 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.

\n Weight: 566g\n
Dimension: 154 x 234 x 25 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367473570\n \n