China's Vision of Victory: Chinese Global Strategy and What It Means for America

Speaker(s):

Dr. Jonathan D.T. Ward

Date of Event:

May 30, 2019

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“China’s Vision of Victory: China’s Strategic Ambitions to Displace the US“

Speaker: Ward, J. (Atlas Organization)

Date: 30 May 2019

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SMA hosted speaker session presented by Dr. Jonathan Ward (Atlas Organization) as a part of its Future of Global Competition & Conflict series. In this talk, Dr. Ward discussed Chinese long-term strategy. For China, the South China Sea is only the beginning. China has three main strategies to reach its 2021 goal of being a dominant regional power and to be established as a dominating global superpower by 2049: 1) The “Belt and Road Initiative”; 2) military modernization; and 3) “Made in China 2025.” China is investing in longer-range power projection capabilities to “safeguard the security of China’s overseas interests.” In addition to its economic strategy, China increasingly is building its military edge directing its sense of nationalism against the United States. “Civil military fusion” envisions the militarization of the Chinese economy—harnessing the power of innovation in the private economy for military competition with the US and other major powers. Made in China 2025 identifies ten industries which Beijing intends to master, many of which have military-industrial applications. This three step plan, with milestones set from 2020 through 2049, include China’s increased manufacturing power, technological development, and leading innovation, culminating in China being the preeminent manufacturing and industrial power through mastery of advanced industries.

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DR. JONATHAN D.T. WARD has been studying the rise of China for more than adecade. From travels with truck caravans in Tibet and across the South China Sea bycargo ship in his early twenties, to accessing Communist Party archives that have nowbeen closed to the world while a PhD candidate at Oxford, to consulting for the U.S.Department of Defense and Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Ward has brought the experienceof a traveler, the discipline of a scholar, and the insight of a strategy consultant to one ofthe biggest challenges of our time: what does China warn, how will it try to get it, andwhat should America do?

Dr. Ward is the Founder of Atlas Organization, a Washington DC and New York basedconsultancy focused on the rise of India and China, and on US-China global competition.He is a frequently invited speaker for government, industry, think tank, expert, and publicaudiences in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Dr. Ward has briefed a wide rangeof audiences from the US Defense Intelligence Agency to the Strategy Division of the USNavy Staff, the Wall Street Journal, leading American corporations, and the UK Ministryof Defence.

Dr. Ward is represented by London Speaker Bureau as a keynote on Global Trends. Heis a member of the 2018 Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellowship programat the Center for a New American Security in Washington D.C, a Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s ChangingCharacter of War Programme, and a former visiting scholar at the University of OxfordChina Centre. He speaks Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, and spent ten yearsoverseas in China, India, Russia, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the MiddleEast before returning to the United States to found Atlas Organization. A US citizen, Dr.Ward studied philosophy, Russian, and Chinese at Columbia University as an undergraduate. He earned his M.St. in Global and Imperial History and his PhD in China-Indiarelations at the University of Oxford.

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Asia

China

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National Security Topic

Economics

Future Global Comp

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