TAI MING CHEUNG
University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation andSchool of Global Policy and Strategy
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California 92093-0518
PH: (858) 534-6894
tcheung@ucsd.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE
November 2023
EDUCATION
Ph.D.

King’s College, London University, England, 2007 (War Studies)
Beijing University, Post-Graduate Research Course on Chinese Politics andForeign Policy, 1987–1988

B.A. (Hons)

Sussex University, Brighton, England, 1987 (International Relations)
Beijing University, Course in Chinese Mandarin and International Politics,
1985–1986

EMPLOYMENT
2013–Present Director, University of California Institute on Global Conflict andCooperation
2018-Present Professor (Tenured), School of Global Policy and Strategy, University ofCalifornia San Diego
2015-2018

Associate Professor (Tenured), School of Global Policy and Strategy,
University of California San Diego

2012–2015

Associate Professor in Residence, School of International Relations andPacific Studies, University of California, San Diego

2009–2012

Associate Research Scientist, University of California Institute on GlobalConflict and Cooperation

2009–2012

Associate Adjunct Professor, School of International Relations and PacificStudies, University of California, San Diego

2004–2009

Academic Coordinator, University of California Institute on Global Conflictand Cooperation

2007–2009

Assistant Adjunct Professor, School of International Relations and PacificStudies, University of California, San Diego

2000–2002

Senior Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hong Kong and Japan

1998–2000

Associate Managing Director, Kroll Associates Ltd., Hong Kong

1997–1998

Research Associate, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London

1993–1998

China Analyst, Kim Eng Securities Ltd., Hong Kong

Tai Ming Cheung-21988–1993

China, Hong Kong and Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent, Far Eastern
Economic Review, Hong Kong

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2012-2013

Member, Committee on Global Approaches to Advanced Computing,National Research Council of the National Academies. Took part in thewriting of a report on “The Changing Global Landscape of AdvancedComputing”

2008-Present Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies
COURSES TAUGHT
1. UCSD Graduate-level seminar on Chinese Foreign and Security Policy
2. UCSD Undergraduate-level political science lecture course on the Rise of China
and its Domestic Challenges
3. UCSD Graduate-level seminar on Asian Security
4. UCSD Graduate-level seminar on Chinese Security, Technology, and Innovation
5. UCSD Graduate class on Chinese Politics
6. UCSD Graduate class on International Politics of the Asia-Pacific Region
7. UCSD Graduate class on Chinese International Relations and National Security
8. UCSD Graduate class on Chinese National Security and Defense Policy
SELECT GRANTS AND RESEARCH FUNDING AWARDS
1. Principal Investigator, Research Project on China’s Science, Technology,Innovation, and Industrial Ecosystems. Contract from the U.S. State Department.
Funding Amount: $2.46 Million; Grant Period: 2021-2024.
2. Principal Investigator, Great Power Competition in the 21st Century: TheStruggle for Technological, Economic, and Strategic Supremacy. Grant from theUniversity of California-National Laboratories Collaborative Research andTraining Awards Program. Funding Amount: $3.7 Million; Grant Period: 20182022.
3. Principal Investigator, China’s Efforts in Civil-Military Integration, Its Impact onthe Development of China’s Acquisition System, and Implications for the UnitedStates. Grant from the Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Program. Funding
Amount: $120,000; Grant Period: 2018-2019.
4. Principal Investigator, Assessing China’s New Plans for Science, Technology, andInnovation Development in the 2020s and 2030s. Contract from the U.S. Air
Force Office of Commercial and Economic Affairs. Funding Amount: $350,000;
Work Period: 2020-2021.

Tai Ming Cheung-35. Principal Investigator, Understanding China's Efforts to Becoming a Global
Defense Science, Technology, and Innovation Leader. Grant from the U.S. Army
Research Office; Funding Amount: $2 million; Grant Period: 2015-2018.
6. Principal Investigator, The Evolving Relationship Between Technology andNational Security in China: Innovation, Defense Transformation, and China’s
Place in the Global Technology Order. Grant from the U.S. Department ofDefense Minerva Proogram. Funding Amount: $9.6 million. Grant Period: 20092015.
7. Principal Investigator, US-China Institutional partnership on Defense Economics,
Technology, and Management. Grant from the Ford Foundation. Funding
Amount: $100,000; Grant Period: 2013-14.
8. Principal Investigator, Understanding China’s Defense Acquisition System:
Comparisons and Implications for the United States. Grant from the Naval
Postgraduate School Acquisition Program. Funding Amount: $120,000; Grant
Period: 2016-2017.
9. Principal Investigator, The Role of Technology Transfers in China’s Defense
Technological and Industrial Development and the Implications for the UnitedStates. Grant from the Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Program. Funding
Amount: $120,000; Grant Period: 2017-2018.
PUBLICATIONSPEER-REVIEWED BOOKS
1. Innovate to Dominate: The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State Under Xi
Jinping. Cornell University Press, June 2022.
2. Ed., Comparing Defense Innovation Around the World. Routledge, 2023.
3. Co-ed (With Tom Manhken), The Gathering Pacific Storm: Emerging US-China
Strategic Competition in Defense Technological and Industrial Development.
Cambria Press, 2018.
4. Co-ed (With Jon Lindsay and Derek Reveron), China and Cybersecurity, Oxford
University Press, 2015
5. Ed., Forging China's Military Might: A New Framework for Assessing
Innovation, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014
6. Ed., China’s Emergence as a Defense Technological Power. Routledge, 2013
7. Fortifying China. Cornell University Press, 2009
8. China’s Entrepreneurial Army. Oxford University Press, 2001
POLICY REPORTS
1. Tai Ming Cheung and Thomas Mahnken, The Decisive Decade: U.S.-China
Competition in Defense Innovation and Defense Industrial Policy in and Beyond
the 2020s (Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, May 2023)

Tai Ming Cheung-42. Tai Ming Cheung, Barry Naughton, and Eric Hagt, China’s Roadmap to Becominga Science, Technology, and Innovation Great Power in the 2020s and Beyond:Assessing its Medium- and Long-Term Strategies and Plans (La Jolla, California,
UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, July 2022)
3. Ed., Leaders, Laggards, and Followers: The Global Competition for Defense
Innovation (La Jolla, CA: IGCC, 2018)
4. Ed., The Gathering Pacific Storm: Emerging US-China Strategic Competition in
Defense Technological and Industrial Development (San Diego: University ofCalifornia Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, February 2017)
5. Ed., Planning for Innovation: Understanding China’s Plans for Technological,
Energy, Industrial, and Defense Development (Washington D.C.; U.S.-China
Economic and Security Review Commission, September 2016)
6. Ed., The Human Dimension of China’s Defense Science, Technology andInnovation System (La Jolla, CA: IGCC, 2015)
7. Co-ed (With Kevin Pollpeter) Getting to Innovation: Assessing China’s Defense
Research, Development, and Acquisition System (La Jolla, CA: IGCC, 2014)
8. Co-ed (With Kevin Pollpeter) The Chinese Defense Economy Takes Off (La Jolla,
CA: La Jolla, CA: IGCC, 2013)
9. Ed., New Perspectives on Assessing the Chinese Defense Economy (IGCC, 2011)
10. Ed., The Rise of the Chinese Defense Economy: Innovation Potential, Industrial
Performance, and Regional Comparisons (La Jolla, CA: IGCC, 2010)SCHOLARLY ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
1. Reorganization of China’s Science and Technology System (La Jolla, California;
UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Working Paper, August 2023).
2. Ed., The Endless Race: The Global Pursuit of Defense Innovation in RevolutionaryTimes, Special Volume in Journal of Strategic Studies, 2021).
3. “A Conceptual Framework of Defence Innovation”, Journal of Strategic Studies,
June 2021.
4. From Big to Powerful: China’s Quest for Security and Power in the Age ofInnovation (Seoul; East Asia Institute Working Paper, April 2019).
5. “Keeping Up with the Jundui: Reforming the Chinese Defense Acquisition,Technology, and Industrial System,” in Phillip C. Saunders, Arthur S. Ding,
Andrew Scobell, Andrew N.D. Yang, and Joel Wuthnow (editors), Chairman Xi
Remakes the PLA (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 2019).
6. “The Rise of China as a Cybersecurity Industrial Power: Balancing National
Security, Geopolitical, and Development Priorities,” Journal of Cyber Policy 3,
No. 3 (2018): 306–26.
7. “Innovation in China’s Defense Technology Base- Foreign Technology andMilitary Capabilities”, Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 36, Nos. 5-6, 2016

Tai Ming Cheung-58. “Racing From Behind: China and the Dynamics of Arms Chases and Races in
East Asia in the 21st Century”, in Joe Maiolo, David Stevenson, and Thomas G.
Mahnken (Editors), Arms Races in International Politics (Oxford UniversityPress, 2016)
9. “Continuity and Change in China's Strategic Innovation System”, Issues andStudies (August 2015)
10. “The Riddle in the Middle: China’s Central Military Commission in the 21stCentury”, in Philip Saunders, Scott Harold, and Michael Swaine (Editors), The
PLA’s Role in National Security Policy-Making (Stanford University Press,October 2015)
11. “Weaknesses in PLA Defense Industries”, in Michael Chase et al, China’s
Incomplete Military Transformation (Washington D.C.: Rand Corp., October2014)
12. “Strategic Latency With Chinese Characteristics: The Quest to Realize its
Strategic Potential in the 21st Century”, in Zachary Davis, Michael Nacht, andRonald Lehman (Editors), Strategic Latency and World Power: How Technology
Is Changing Our Concepts of Security (Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, 2014)
13. “Trade Versus Security: How Countries Balance Technology Transfers withChina,” Journal of East Asian Studies 13 (2013): 443–456 (with Bates Gill)
14. “Economics, Security and Technology in Northeast Asia: Maneuvering Between
Nationalist and Globalist Forces”, in T.J. Pempel (Ed), The Economy-Security
Nexus in Northeast Asia (Routledge, 2012)
15. Guest Editor, Journal of Strategic Studies special issue on “China’s Emergence as
a Defense Technological Power,” Vol. 34, No. 3, June 2011
16. “The Chinese Defense Economy’s Long March from Imitation to Innovation,”
Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3, June 2011
17. “Engineering Human Souls: The Development of Chinese Military Journalism
and the Emerging Defense Media Market”, in Susan Shirk (Ed), Changing Media,
Changing China (Oxford University Press, December 2010).
18. “Modernizing the People’s Liberation Army: Aims and Implications”, in Shaun
Breslin (Ed), Handbook of China’s International Relations (London: Routledge,2010).
19. “Dragon on the Horizon: China’s Defense Industrial Renaissance,” Journal ofStrategic Studies 32 (1), January 2009
20. “Innovation within China’s Defense Technological and Industrial Base,” in Stuart
Johnson (ed.), Thinking the Unthinkable: U.S. Military Intervention in the Taiwan
Straits (Washington, DC: National Defense University, 2007)
21. “Does the People’s Republic of China have the industrial, technological,
economic and infrastructure capacity to wage and sustain a successful military
campaign to subdue Taiwan?” in Steve Tsang, If China Attacks Taiwan (London:Routledge, 2006)
22. Harnessing the Dragon: Civil-Military Integration and China’s Defense
Modernisation (Taipei: Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies, January
2004)Tai Ming Cheung-623. “The Role of the Central Military Commission in China’s Defense DecisionMaking Process,” in David M. Lampton (ed.), The Making of Chinese Foreignand Security Policy in the Era of Reform (Stanford: Stanford University Press,2001)
24. “Reforming the Dragon’s Tail: Chinese Military Logistics in the Era of HighTechnology Warfare and Market Economics”, in James R. Lilley and David
Shambaugh (Eds), China’s Military Faces the Future (M.E.Sharpe, Armonk, NewYork, 1999)
25. China’s Military Agenda Towards Taiwan (Taipei: Chinese Council of Advanced
Policy Studies, November 1998)
26. Jiang Zemin at the Helm: His Quest for Power and Paramount Status”, China
Strategic Review, Spring 1998
27. “Chinese Military Preparations Against Taiwan Over the Next Ten Years”, inJames R. Lilley and Chuck Downs (Eds), Crisis in the Taiwan Strait (Washington
DC: National Defense University, 1997)
28. “The Chinese Army’s New Marching Orders: Winning on the Economic
Battlefield”, in Jorn Brommelhorster and John Frankenstein (Eds), MixedMotives, Uncertain Outcomes: Defense Conversion in China (Boulder: LynneRienner, 1997)
29. "The Interaction Between Economics and Security For China's ExternalRelations", in Susan Shirk and Christopher Twomey (Eds), Power andProsperity: Economic and Security Linkages in the Asia Pacific (New Brunswick:Transaction Publishers, 1996)
30. “Guarding China’s Domestic Front Line: The People’s Armed Police and China’sStability”, The China Quarterly, June 1996
31. "Profits Over Professionalism: The People's Liberation Army's Economic
Activities and Impact on Military Unity", in Richard Yang, et al, ChineseRegionalism: The Security Dimension (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1994)
32. "The People's Liberation Army in 1992: Political Power Plays and Power
Projection", in Joseph Cheng & Maurice Brosseau (Eds), China Review 1993
(Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1993)
33. "Emerging Chinese Perspectives on Naval Arms Control", in Andrew Mack (Ed),A Peaceful Ocean? Maritime Security in the Pacific in the Post-Cold War Era(Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1993)
34. "Ties of Convenience: Sino-Russian Military Relations in the 1990s", in PLAYearbook, 1992/93 (Taipei: Chinese Centre for Advanced Policy Studies andWestview, 1993)
35. "The Role of the PLA Between April-June 1989", in PLA Yearbook 1989/90(Taipei: Sun-Yat Sen Centre for Policy Studies, Kaohsiung, 1991)
36. Editor, Changing Patterns of East Asian Security (Hong Kong Lingnan College
Centre for Asian Pacific Studies, 1991)
37. Growth of Chinese Naval Power: Priorities, Goals, Missions, and Regional
Implications (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, December 1990)
38. "Disarmament and Development in China: The Relationship Between National
Defense and Economic Development", Asian Survey, July 1988

Tai Ming Cheung-739. "The Impact of Foreign Policy Research Institutes in the Post Mao Making ofChinese Foreign Policy", Issues and Studies, July 1987
40. "Trends in the Research of Chinese Military Strategy" Survival, May/June 1987