In Innovate to Dominate, Tai Ming Cheung offers insight into why, how, and whether China will overtake the United States to become the world's preeminent technological and security power. This examination of the means and ends of China's quest for techno-security supremacy is required reading for anyone looking for clues as to the long-term direction of the global order.

The techno-security domain, Cheung argues, is where national security, innovation, and economic development converge, and it has become the center of power and prosperity in the twenty-first century. China's paramount leader Xi Jinping recognizes that effectively harnessing the complex interactions among security, innovation, and development is essential in enabling China to compete for global dominance.

Cheung offers a richly detailed account of how China is building a potent techno-security state. In Innovate to Dominate he takes readers from the strategic vision guiding this transformation to the nuts-and-bolts of policy implementation. The state-led top-down mobilizational model that China is pursuing has been a winning formula so far, but the sternest test is ahead as China begins to compete head-to-head with the United States and aims to surpass its archrival by mid-century if not sooner.

Innovate to Dominate is a timely and analytically rigorous examination of the key strategies guiding China's transformation of its capabilities in the national, technological, military, and security spheres and how this is taking place. Cheung authoritatively addresses the burning questions being asked in capitals around the world: Can China become the dominant global techno-security power? And if so, when?

About the Author

Tai Ming Cheung is Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy and Director of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California San Diego. He has edited and coedited several books and is the author of Fortifying China and China's Entrepreneurial Army.

Reviews

Innovate to Dominate delivers truths that counters familiar rhetoric on China's techno-security capabilities.

* The China Project *

In Innovate to Dominate, Tai Ming Cheung compellingly argues that China is evolving into a "techno-security state" in order to win this race. This excellent book paints President Xi Jinping as the driving force behind the country becoming a "security-maximizing state."

* MERICS China Essentials *

For students and scholars of youth studies, this book is an essential starting place The lucid and succinct descriptions of film and drama, in particular the cinematic oeuvre of Anna Melikian, understudied until now, nestle these contemporary works neatly within the Slavic Studies field through approaches that continue to be of interest.

* The China Quarterly *



Book Information
ISBN 9781501764349
Author Tai Ming Cheung
Format Hardback
Page Count 414
Imprint Cornell University Press
Publisher Cornell University Press
Weight(grams) 907g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm