{{Notability|Academics|date=August 2023}}{{Short description|Chinese geopolitician and strategist}} '''Zhang Wenmu''' ({{zh|s=张文木}}) is a Chinese [[Geopolitics|geopolitician]] and [[strategist]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Escobar|first=Pepe|date=2019-01-05|title=Chinese scholar offers insight into Beijing's strategic mindset|url=https://asiatimes.com/2019/01/chinese-scholar-offers-insight-into-beijings-strategic-mindset/|access-date=2022-02-14|website=[[Asia Times]]|language=en-US}}</ref> Zhang is currently a professor at the Center for Strategic Studies at [[Beihang University|Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics]], an executive director of the World Socialism Research Center of the [[Chinese Academy of Social Sciences]], and a director of the China Pacific Society.<ref>{{Cite web|title=张文木|url=http://www.hss.buaa.edu.cn/info/1105/1307.htm|access-date=2022-02-14|website=北京航空航天大学 人文社会科学学院（公共管理学院）|archive-date=2022-06-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609041845/http://www.hss.buaa.edu.cn/info/1105/1307.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is a columnist for Chinese [[Chinese nationalism|nationalist]] websites such as ''[[Utopia (internet forum)|Utopia]]'', ''[[Red Song Society]]'' and [[Guancha|Guancha.cn]]. Zhang has a nationalistic political orientation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The fake news in China's media on the Russian invasion of Ukraine – Zhang Lijia |date=14 March 2022 |url=https://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/2022/03/14/the-fake-news-in-chinas-media-on-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-zhang-lijia/ |access-date=2022-07-19 |language=en-US}}</ref> He is known as China's "[[hawkish]] scholar" because he believes that China should continue [[Maoism|Mao's ideas]] in its strategy.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gitter|first=David|title=How Chinese Analysts Understand Taiwan's Geostrategic Significance|url=https://thediplomat.com/2016/03/how-chinese-analysts-understand-taiwans-geostrategic-significance/|access-date=2022-02-14|website=[[The Diplomat (magazine)|The Diplomat]]|language=en-US}}</ref> Because of his views on [[maritime power]], [[The National Interest|''The'' ''National Interest'']] called him one of China's first "navalists".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Goldstein|first=Lyle J.|date=2015-04-11|title=Get Ready: China Could Pull a 'Crimea' in Asia|url=https://nationalinterest.org/feature/get-ready-will-china-pull-crimea-asia-12605|access-date=2022-02-14|website=[[The National Interest]]|language=en}}</ref> Zhang is regarded as China's leading advocates of the theories of the American strategist [[Alfred Thayer Mahan]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lague|first=David|date=2013-11-27|title=Special Report: China's navy breaks out to the high seas|language=en|work=[[Reuters]]|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-navy-specialreport-idUSBRE9AQ04220131127|access-date=2022-02-14}}</ref>
== Monographs ==
* {{cite book|author=Zhang|first=W.|title=中国新世纪安全战略|publisher=Shandong Renmin Chubanshe|year=2000|isbn=9787209026475|location=Jinan|language=zh|trans-title=China's Security Strategy for the New Century}} * {{cite book|author=Zhang|first=W.|title=世界地缘政治中的中国国家安全利益分析|publisher=Shandong Renmin Chubanshe|year=2004|isbn=9787209034579|location=Jinan|language=zh|trans-title=Analysis of China's National Security Interests in World Geopolitics}} * {{cite book|author=Zhang|first=W.|title=印度国家发展及其潜力评估——与中国比较|publisher=Kexue Jishu Wenxian Chubanshe|year=2005|isbn=9787502350444|location=Beijing|language=zh|trans-title=An Assessment of India's National Development and Its Potential: A Comparison with China}} * {{cite book|author=Zhang|first=W.|title=全球视野中的中国国家安全战略 上卷|publisher=Shandong Renmin Chubanshe|year=2008|isbn=9787209044042|location=Jinan|language=zh|trans-title=China's National Security Strategy in a Global Perspective Volume 1}} * ''On China's Maritime Power'' (2009) * {{cite book|author=Zhang|first=W.|title=全球视野中的中国国家安全战略 中卷|publisher=Shandong Renmin Chubanshe|year=2010|isbn=9787209053808|location=Jinan|language=zh|trans-title=China's National Security Strategy in a Global Perspective Volume 2}} * ''National Strategic Capabilities and the Great Power Game'' (2012) * ''India and the Indian Ocean: A Chinese Geopolitical Perspective'' (2015) * ''Chinese Geopolitical Theories'' (2015) * ''The Impact of the Rise of Christianity and Buddhism on the Competitiveness of the Eurasian Region'' (2015) * ''Revisiting Maoist Strategic Thought'' (2016) * ''Climate Change and the Fate of China'' (2017) * {{cite book|author=Zhang|first=W.|title=战略学札记|publisher=Haiyang Chubanshe|year=2018|isbn=9787502799755|location=|language=zh|trans-title=Strategic Studies}}
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