Tai Ming Cheung's Book Referenced in the Council on Foreign Relations
Thoughts on the USCC’s New Report on Chinese Cyberattacks
03/09/2012
Adam Segal,
Council on Foreign Relations
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The report does a good job of bringing a great deal of Chinese-language and open-source information together, and is especially useful in laying out how information security research is funded in and conducted by military and civilian universities. Much of the discussion, however, about how China thinks about computer network operations, the growing links between defense and civilian industries, and the threats to the supply chain has been done before (James Mulvenon is particularly good on Chinese thinking about seizing the information advantage and the "digital triangle"; Tai Ming Cheung's Fortifying China is an exhaustive study of China's efforts to build a dual-use industrial base; and CFR held a workshop on some of the vulnerabilities that stem from sourcing hardware and software from all over the world in January 2011).
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Tai Ming Cheung is an associate research scientist at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) located at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla. He directs the Minerva program on Chinese security and technology, a multi-year academic research and training project funded by the U.S. Defense Department to explore China’s technological potential.
Fortifying China: The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy, Cornell University Press, 2009
