China’s space industry is a strategic sector that the country’s leaders point out “constitutes an important force in safeguarding national security, driving scientific and technological advancement, enhancing national comprehensive power, and boosting international...

Space industries confront unique challenges in successfully bringing programs to conclusion, primarily due to the harsh environments in which spacecraft operate and the technologies needed to send them into orbit. Developers of successful space systems place great emphasis on...

In line with the European policy of supporting China’s economic reform and development, research institutes and companies in the European Union (EU) have been the major sources for high-technology exports to the People’s Republic of China in the past thirty years. Dual-use...

While it is clear that Japan’s legislative body, the Diet, is empowered in budgeting and oversight mechanisms, there is no consensus on whether the Diet wields actual power in influencing defense policy and whether the Diet’s role in defense policy approaches that of...