Wang Xiangsui
王湘穗
Director of the Center for Strategic Issues
In office
2012–Present
Personal details
BornOctober 1954 (age 69)
Guangzhou, China
Political partyCommunist Party of China
Alma materBeihang University
OccupationAuthor, Academic, Military Theorist
Military service
Branch/servicePeople's Liberation Army Air Force
Years of service1970 - 2012
RankColonel (Retired)

Wang Xiangsui (王湘穗, born October 1, 1954) is a professor at Beihang University in Beijing, China[1] and a retired senior Colonel in the People's Liberation Army.[2] He is also a co-author of Unrestricted Warfare, a book which dictates that no country is capable of defeating a superpower, such as the United States, on its own terms. The book outlines steps that could weaken such superpowers, through unconventional means, including manipulation of banking systems, control of the media and natural resources.[2]

Biography

Qiao joined the People's Liberation Army Air Force towards the end of 1970, serving successively as instructor, brigade political commissar, deputy division chief, regimental political commissar, and division deputy political commissar and eventually retiring at the rank of Colonel.

Qiao currently works as a professor at Beihang University as the director of the Center for Strategic Issues, and deputy secretary-general of the National Security Policy Committee and director of the Academic Research Department of the Chinese Society for Policy Sciences.[3]

He along with Qiao Liang is the co-author of numerous books of military theory, the most prominent of which being Unrestricted Warfare which has influenced the strategic thinking of the People's Liberation Army as well as the United States in its policy towards China, Wang is also the author of numerous other books including: On the Quality of Officers, Exposition of the World's Military Powers, and Records of World Wars.[4]

Published Works

Xiangsui, Wang; Liang, Qiao (1 February 1999). Unrestricted Warfare (in Chinese). China: People's Liberation Army Arts and Literature Press. ISBN 9787540318871.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Xiangsui, Wang (1 April 2012). Catch up and Contain (in Chinese). China: Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House. ISBN 9787535456113.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Xiangsui, Wang; Liang, Qiao (February 2017). On the Quality of Officers (in Chinese). China: Beijing Yangtze River New Century Corporation. ISBN 9787535456328.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

References

  1. WANG Xiang Sui
  2. 1 2 "Introduction: The smart colonels". The Asia Times. 27 March 2002. Archived from the original on 6 April 2002. Retrieved 27 May 2010.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. "王湘穗_学术_专栏作者_爱思想思想库_爱思想". www.aisixiang.com. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  4. "王湘穗". mcrp.macrochina.com.cn. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
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