PRC’S MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX UNDER XI JINPING

The Industrial-military Complex

The Military Industrial Complex

This paper reviews the origin and theoretical foundation of the concept MilitaryIndustrial Complex and explains the key issues involved in the literature on the MIC in the Cold war context. It then considers the implications for the MIC of some main post-Cold War developments, with particular emphasis on the arms industry, its structure and effects. It then assesses the degree to which the end ...

Soviet Industry and the Red Army under Stalin: a Military-industrial Complex?

The paper considers some of the views of the Stalin–era relationship between Soviet industry and the Red Army that are current in the literature, and disentangles some confusions of translation. The economic weight of the defence sector in the economic system is summarised in various aspects. The lessons of recent archival research are used as a basis for analysing the army–industry relationshi...

The U.S. Military-Industrial Complex is Circumstantially Unethical

Business ethicists should examine not only business practices but whether a particular type of business is even prima facie ethical. To illustrate how this might be done I here examine the contemporary U.S. defense industry. In the past the U.S. military has engaged in missions that arguably satisfied the just war self-defense rationale, thereby implying that its suppliers of equipment and serv...

Open letter to Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China: China's fight against corruption in organ transplantation.

The international media have recently focused attention on the resolve of China’s new leadership to combat the rampant corruption within its society. The January 13, 2014, article in the China Daily, ‘‘For a clean and fair society,’’ reported your guidelines for political and legal reform. The judicial system is now charged to ‘‘carry the sword of justice and scale of equality’’ for all of Chin...