“How Big a Threat Does China Pose?”

By Mark Thompson | @MarkThompson_DC | September 20, 2011 | +

This week on Command Post, John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security and I probe the threat — or whatever it is — posed by China. We’re joined in the discussion by David Finkelstein, retired Army officer and director of China studies at the Pentagon-funded Center for Naval Analyses, and Patrick Cronin, CNAS’s director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program and former research chief at the U.S. Institute of Peace.

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