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Along with China's emergence as a great power, Chinese Communist Party leaders in Beijing face a wide range of traditional and non-traditional security challenges. This course examines Chinese perspectives on, and responses to, contemporary national security issues such as competition with the United States, Taiwan and cross-Strait relations, maritime disputes, North Korea's nuclear program, and space and cyberspace security. This course also considers domestic security issues, as well as the responses of other countries to China’s rise in areas such as defense strategy and export control policy.