Saturday, December 02, 2006

Another PhD is born

On Friday my PhD student Tai Ming Cheung successfully defended his PhD thesis on the development of the Chinese dual-use defence industrial base. Great title: 'Leaping Tiger, Hybrid Dragon'. Tai Ming is rather brilliant and as a result was absolutely a dawdle to supervise. We'll be hearing a lot more from Tai Ming I think. Events in the Middle East have caused a lot of us to take our eyes off China's rise. That's going to change soon. There are few people better placed to interpret and explain developments in Chinese security than Tai Ming.

2 comments:

IvanZ said...

Congratulations to you both!!! Seems that you have a great expert as well as someone with an ability to come up with great titles.

Anonymous said...

Tai Ming Cheung is certainly a big name for those that follow China's military developments. I wish I'd known beforehand that he was at King's!