China's forbearance has limits
Subtitle: Chinese threat and retaliation signaling and its implications for a Sino-American military confrontation
By: by Paul H.B. Godwin and Alice L. Miller
Contributors: Miller, Alice Lyman; National Defense University. Center for Strategic Research
Series: Institute for National Strategic Studies China strategic perspectives -- no. 6; China strategic perspectives (National Defense University. Institute for National Strategic Studies) -- no. 6.
Publisher: National Defense University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: National security; Foreign relations; Military policy; Strategic aspects
Description: This study assesses the context and motivations of the PRC's use of military force since 1949. It then extracts Beijing's use of its calculus of warning statements in detail from several instances in which it has threatened and, in some cases, actually followed through with the use of military force to resolve a dispute. It offers several points to take into account in watching for and analyzing Beijing's use of this warnings calculus in contemporary contexts, and it offers a hypothetical scenario in which this calculus might appear in the context of China's claims in the South China Sea. -- Excerpted from introduction.
Notes: "April, 2013."

"Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-106).
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Introduction; title: The record: Beijing's use of military force; title: China's crisis decisionmaking process and crisis management; title: Signaling the intent to employ military force- China's warnings calculus; title: Signaling case studies- Taiwan; title: Analyzing Beijing's signals- things to consider; title: Conclusion- a hypothetical South China Sea signalling scenario; title: Appendix 1; title: Appendix 2; title: Appendix 3; title: Notes; title: Acknowlegments; title: About the authors.