Dean Cheng

Senior Research Fellow

Dean Cheng brings detailed knowledge of China’s military and space capabilities to bear as The Heritage Foundation’s research fellow on Chinese political and security affairs. Read his research.

You can send tips to dean.cheng@heritage.org

LATEST

  • NASA Scores Bullseye on Asteroid With Unusual Mission

    Dean Cheng
    NASA successfully conducted a test Monday in which the agency deliberately ran a spacecraft into the smaller of two asteroids to alter the trajectory of that asteroid. The space agency’s successful test, called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, involved advanced technologies. The spacecraft hit the smaller “moonlet” at some 14,760 mph—a speed substantially…
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  • Blinken in Multiverse of Biden Madness, China Edition
    Dean Cheng

  • China, Russia, and Ukraine: It’s Folly to Think Beijing Will Work With West
    Dean Cheng

  • Looking to the Stars in 2022
    Dean Cheng

  • Unproductive Xi-Biden Summit Sets Stage for Deeper Rift in US-Chinese Relations
    Dean Cheng

  • Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Saber-Rattling Is All About Shoring Up Domestic Power
    Dean Cheng

  • How Might China Exploit Afghanistan Debacle?
    Dean Cheng

  • Red China Reaches Red Planet as Beijing Joins Mars Club
    Dean Cheng

  • No, NASA Shouldn’t Get in Bed With China’s Space Program
    Dean Cheng

  • What the Story Behind Xi Jinping, Jack Ma, and the Ant Group IPO Says About China’s Economic Future
    Dean Cheng

  • China’s Next ‘5-Year Plan’ Likely to Increase Animosity Between Washington and Beijing
    Riley Walters

  • As It Gains Strength and Prestige, China’s Air Force Increasingly Takes Center Stage
    Dean Cheng

  • Outer Space and Private Property
    Dean Cheng

  • What the Potential Crisis on the Yangtze Means for China and the World
    Dean Cheng

  • Closure of China’s Consulate in Houston Signals Continuing Decline in US-China Relations
    Dean Cheng

  • Asia’s Space Age
    Dean Cheng
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