China’s civilian industry is still tightly integrated with the military, but open discussion of the link is less frequent.
China’s flagship policy to get the private sector to support its military ambitions has long given foreign governments like the U.S. the chills. Now, though, Chinese companies seem to be getting shy about promoting it.
The idea behind military-civil fusion (MCF) was to get companies working with Chinese armed forces on advanced technologies. In recent years, though, mentions of the phrase “military-civil fusion” have become rarer in major Chinese policy documents.
Moreover,
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