Bernard Cole, Professor, International History, National War College
| DATE: | Friday, August 26, 2005 |
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| TIME: | 4:00 PM |
| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor |
| FORMAT: | Colloquium |
| SPONSORS: | Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies |
Since the mid 1980s, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been engaged in a large-scale modernization of its military forces. Taiwan has also taken steps to modernize its military. In this lecture, Bernard Cole examines the military balance across the Taiwan Strait.
Bernard D. Cole teaches at the National War College in Washington, D.C., where he concentrates on Sino-American relations, the Chinese military, and Asian energy issues. He spent the 2004-2005 academic year as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University, writing a book on Taiwan's national defense.
