1. Did Russian Jets Violate Japanese Airspace?

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    Japan scrambled fighter jets after two Russian Su-27 fighter jets entered Japanese airspace over the territorial waters of Rishiri Island [...]

  2. Intellectual Property Meets Military Technology

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    Intellectual property, including patents, copyrights, and trade secrets, increasingly dominates the exports of advanced economies.  However, intellectual property is uniquely [...]

  3. Russia and China Close to SU-35 Deal…Again

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    Amidst all the fanfare surrounding China’s increasingly impressive roster of homemade aircraft, Beijing has doggedly maintained its pursuit of Russia’s [...]

  4. Should Russia sell Su-35 to China?

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    Russia is reportedly close to finalizing a major sale of advanced fighter aircraft to China worth $4 billion. Such a [...]

  5. China’s Sukhoi Submission

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    China is executing an ambitious defense modernization plan designed to make the country militarily self-sufficient by around the 2020s. So [...]