National Strategic Integration: How China is Building Its Strategic Power

com.cn/n1/2023/0309/c64094-32640039.html IGCC • MERICS • October 2023 4 National Strategic Integration and the Building of China’s Strategic Power The Slow Birth of the NSI Concept The concept of National Strategic Integration the Ministry of National Defense website between receiv. [...] Despite the word together strategic capabilities and resources from ‘system,’ the NSI concept is less about structure across jurisdications (civil and military, central and more about process—specifically the process and provincial, state and private sector) to create of integration across the civilian, national security, a more capable and integrated system able to and military sectors, with the. [...] IGCC • MERICS • October 2023 6 National Strategic Integration and the Building of China’s Strategic Power Priorities and Structure of NSI The tight veil of secrecy surrounding NSI was pulled Priority 4: Increase the country’s strategic reserve back slightly when Xi talked about the NSI concept capacity and intensify efforts to build strategic publicly for the first time to military delegates at th. [...] As foreign concerns and criticism preparing for the possibility of major war.10 of MCF mounted in the late 2010s, the Chinese authorities censored the use of the term in 2019 and it has largely disappeared from public view. [...] IGCC • MERICS • October 2023 10 National Strategic Integration and the Building of China’s Strategic Power Author Tai Ming Cheung is director of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) and a professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego, where he teaches courses on the international relations and national security of China and Chines.