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Vice President at the Center for Naval Analyses, an independent research institute in Arlington, Virginia. Director of the China and Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Division at the Center for Naval Analyses
A graduate of the US Military Academy, Finkelstein received a doctorate in Chinese and Japanese history from Princeton University and studied Mandarin at Nankai University in Tianjin, China.
Finkelstein is a member of the National Committee for US-China Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A retired US Army officer, he has been involved in PRC and Asian security affairs throughout his career. He is the coeditor of multiple volumes on Chinese security and military affairs, including Chinese Warfighting: The PLA Experience Since 1949 (2003), China’s Revolution in Doctrinal Affairs: Developments in the Operational Art of the People’s Liberation Army (2002), Civil-Military Relations in Today’s China: Swimming in a New Sea (2015), and China’s Leadership in the 21st Century: The Rise of the Fourth Generation (2015). His historical monograph, Washington’s Taiwan Dilemma, 1949-1950: From Abandonment to Salvation, focuses on the roots of US postwar Taiwan policy. His paper, “Breaking the Paradigm: Drivers behind the PLA’s Current Period of Reform,” is the lead chapter in Chairman Xi Remakes the PLA: Assessing Chinese Military Reforms (2019).
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About David Finkelstein
Vice President at the Center for Naval Analyses, an independent research institute in Arlington, Virginia. Director of the China and Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Division at the Center for Naval Analyses
A graduate of the US Military Academy, Finkelstein received a doctorate in Chinese and Japanese history from Princeton University and studied Mandarin at Nankai University in Tianjin, China.
Finkelstein is a member of the National Committee for US-China Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A retired US Army officer, he has been involved in PRC and Asian security affairs throughout his career. He is the coeditor of multiple volumes on Chinese security and military affairs, including Chinese Warfighting: The PLA Experience Since 1949 (2003), China’s Revolution in Doctrinal Affairs: Developments in the Operational Art of the People’s Liberation Army (2002), Civil-Military Relations in Today’s China: Swimming in a New Sea (2015), and China’s Leadership in the 21st Century: The Rise of the Fourth Generation (2015). His historical monograph, Washington’s Taiwan Dilemma, 1949-1950: From Abandonment to Salvation, focuses on the roots of US postwar Taiwan policy. His paper, “Breaking the Paradigm: Drivers behind the PLA’s Current Period of Reform,” is the lead chapter in Chairman Xi Remakes the PLA: Assessing Chinese Military Reforms (2019).