The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security

Dean Cheng - Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

Students: Spring 2026, unless noted otherwise, sessions will be virtual on Zoom.

Chinese Views of Information and Future Warfare

Feb 15, 2023

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Abstract

Examines Chinese views on the importance of information as the new currency of international power, and discusses how the PLA's restructuring supports PLA efforts at planning for future "informationized local wars."

About the Speaker

Dean Cheng
Dean Cheng is a non-resident Senior Fellow with the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and a Senior Advisor with the US Institute of Peace. He recently retired from the Heritage Foundation as the Senior Research Fellow for Chinese political and security affairs. He specializes in Chinese military and foreign policy, and has written extensively on Chinese military doctrine, technological implications of its space program, and "dual use" issues associated with China's industrial and scientific infrastructure. He is the author of "Cyber Dragon: Inside China's Information Warfare and Cyber Operations."


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