Defense Modernization In The People S Republic Of China

Author : Air Command and Staff College
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1500673692

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Military Modernization in the People's Republic of China by Air Command and Staff College Pdf

China is experiencing extremely rapid changes in every element of its national power; economic, political, and military. Its economy is booming, producing double digit gains each year since the mid-1980s. This explosive growth raises the prospect of China emerging as a major global power. To help protect this potential new status, Beijing decided to modernize its military to ?gain respect? in the world community and become militarily competitive with other global powers. This resulted in a nation possessing one of the fastest growing economies in the world combined with one of the largest military machines; that is slowly gaining an offensive force-projection capability. These factors may upset the balance of power in the Asian region, in addition to posing a threat to U.S. interests. This paper examines the implications for U.S. and regional security posed by the economic reforms and the military modernization taking place in China, focusing on Chinese acquisition and indigenous production of high-technology weapons to produce an offensive force projection capability. After surveying the lack of resources available to the Chinese defense industries, it analyzes China's military equipment modernization program and impediments to that program. By assessing the impact of the impediments, it concludes that the economic reform in the People's Republic of China (PRC) has actually slowed military modernization efforts and hindered indigenous defense production. This has reduced the military's possibilities of developing limited or sustained force projection for 15 to 25 years. Thus the U.S. and regional nations have an opportunity to engage China and bring it fully into the world community before it becomes a regional threat.

Author : Anthony H. Cordesman,Ashley Hess,Nicholas S. Yarosh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442227767

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Chinese Military Modernization and Force Development by Anthony H. Cordesman,Ashley Hess,Nicholas S. Yarosh Pdf

China’s military development has become a key focus of US security policy as well as that of virtually all Asia-Pacific states. This report from the CSIS Burke Chair in Strategy examines trends in Chinese strategy, military spending, and military forces based on Chinese defense white papers and other official Chinese sources; US reporting by the Department of Defense and other defense agencies; and other government sources, including Japanese and Korean defense white papers and the International Monetary Fund. The analysis also draws on the work of experts outside of government, various research centers, and nongovernmental organizations.

Author : David Shambaugh,Professor of Political Science David L Shambaugh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520225077

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Modernizing China’s Military by David Shambaugh,Professor of Political Science David L Shambaugh Pdf

Annotation The most thorough overview of the Chinese defense programs and Sino-American military relations by a leading authority.

Author : Anthony H. Cordesman,Martin Kleiber
Publisher : CSIS
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780892064960

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Chinese Military Modernization by Anthony H. Cordesman,Martin Kleiber Pdf

Author : Richard A. Bitzinger,Chong-Pin Lin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : China
ISBN : UIUC:30112098256057

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The Defense Budget of the People's Republic of China by Richard A. Bitzinger,Chong-Pin Lin Pdf

As Asia looms larger in Western, and particularly U.S., security calculations, interest in the People's Republic of China (PRC) as a potential Security concern has grown. As China attempts to modernize its forces, is it becoming a "threat" to Western security in the region, and, if so, does it constitute a direct military threat? How successful have the Chinese been in upgrading their armed forces? How capable is China of projecting its forces beyond its borders? In attempting to answer these questions, it would be useful to know where current Chinese strategic and military priorities lay, and whether the PRC is investing enough resources in these priorities to constitute a serious security concern for the West. Since defense budgets are often a critical indicator of national defense priorities and policies, Western interest in Chinese defense spending has also grown considerably. The size of its defense budget, the rate of growth (or decline) in its military expenditures, and what it spends its defense dollars on can reveal much about a country's national security intentions and military plans. Defense budgets are usually an indicator of a country's military modernization priorities, and what future military capabilities it might possess. They can also serve as a gauge of a country's defense commitment and resolve, or its potential to threaten others.

Author : Nan Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136916274

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Chinese Civil-Military Relations by Nan Li Pdf

This new book addresses three key issues: What has changed in Chinese civil-military relations? What can account for changes? And what are the implications for Chinese security policy and strategic behaviour? It tackles these questions by sharply assessing civil-military dynamics in elite politics; such dynamics in national security and arms control policy; relations between commanders and political commissars; relations between the PLA and society; civil-military dynamics regarding defence economics and logistics; and such dynamics regarding dual-use technologies and defence industry. These analyses build into the central theme that the emphasis of Chinese civil-military relations is shifting from politics to military tasks. This is an extremely important new development by a nation many predict to become a super power in the twenty-first century. This is therefore essential reading for all students and scholars of strategic and security studies, Chinese studies and international relations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Arms transfers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110093593

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The Dragon Awakes by Anonim Pdf

"Four essays ... analyze broad trends in Chinese military modernization. While they treat strategic capabilities ... the essays analyze considerably more. They look at the whole pattern of Chinese military modernization-- strategy, doctrine, information warfare, ground, naval and air forces. The essays come to ... much the same conclusion: that while the PLA ... is acquiring "pockets" of modern capabilities through a variety of legal and illegal endeavors, these selective acquisitions do not offset the overall obsolescence of most of China's armed forces."

Author : C. Dennison Lane,Mark Weisenbloom,Dimon Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019551584

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Chinese Military Modernization by C. Dennison Lane,Mark Weisenbloom,Dimon Liu Pdf

Examining Chinese intentions and the means they have to achieve those intentions, this volume begins with Roger Ames's essay analyzing the Chinese military through from the earliest times

Author : Michael S. Chase,Jeffrey Engstrom,Tai Ming Cheung,Kristen A. Gunness,Scott Warren Harold,Susan Puska,Samuel K. Berkowitz
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833088314

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China’s Incomplete Military Transformation by Michael S. Chase,Jeffrey Engstrom,Tai Ming Cheung,Kristen A. Gunness,Scott Warren Harold,Susan Puska,Samuel K. Berkowitz Pdf

Through extensive primary source analysis and independent analysis, this report seeks to answer a number of important questions regarding the state of China’s armed forces. The authors found that the PLA is keenly aware of its many weaknesses and is vigorously striving to correct them. Although it is only natural to focus on the PLA’s growing capabilities, understanding the PLA’s weaknesses—and its self-assessments—is no less important.

Author : Anthony H. Cordesman,Steven Colley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442259010

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Chinese Strategy and Military Modernization in 2015 by Anthony H. Cordesman,Steven Colley Pdf

China’s emergence as a global economic superpower, and as a major regional military power in Asia and the Pacific, has had a major impact on its relations with the United States and its neighbors. China was the driving factor in the new strategy the United States announced in 2012 that called for a “rebalance” of U.S. forces to the Asia-Pacific region. At the same time, China’s actions on its borders, in the East China Sea, and in the South China Sea have shown that it is steadily expanding its geopolitical role in the Pacific and having a steadily increasing impact on the strategy and military developments in other Asian powers.

Author : David Shambaugh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520938106

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Modernizing China’s Military by David Shambaugh Pdf

David Shambaugh, a leading international authority on Chinese strategic and military affairs, offers the most comprehensive and insightful assessment to date of the Chinese military. The result of a decade's research, Modernizing China's Military comes at a crucial moment in history, one when international attention is increasingly focused on the rise of Chinese military power. Basing his analysis on an unprecedented use of Chinese military publications and interviews with People's Liberation Army (PLA) officers, Shambaugh addresses important questions about Chinese strategic intentions and military capabilities--questions that are of key concern for government policymakers as well as strategic analysts and a concerned public.

Author : David L. Shambaugh,Zhongchun Wang
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : China
ISBN : 9781428913752

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China's Transition Into the 21st Century by David L. Shambaugh,Zhongchun Wang Pdf

This past April the Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute held its Seventh Annual Strategy Conference. The theme, "China Into the 21st Century: Strategic Partner and ... or Peer Competitor," was especially timely. Dr. David Shambaugh and Senior Colonel Wang Zhongchun look at China from two very different perspectives. Professor Shambaugh contends that those who succeed Deng Xiaoping, fearful of any further erosion of Communist Party hegemony and determined to return China to a purer form of neo-Maoist Marxism, will become even more conservative as China's economic and social problems intensify. Despite considerable political and economic challenges, his best estimate is that China will, from inherent inertia, "muddle through" well into the 21st century. Indeed, it is in the interests of the United States for China to hold together as a territorial nation-state and political unit because disintegration would foster socio-economic dislocations that could destabilize Asia. At the same time, U.S. policy must maintain pressure on China to improve human and civil rights performance. Senior Colonel Wang Zhongchun provides a tour d'horizon of nearly a half-century of Chinese defense policy, from a distinctly PRC perspective. He then argues that China has attained a position of security and, even though the world presents many uncertainties, Beijing is committed to playing a positive role for peace and stability in Asia. The central principle in today's security analysis is that defense policy must support economic development so that China can grow into an economically progressive, democratic, and modern socialist country. Colonel Wang portrays China's military posture as one that seeks, above all, to protect China's territorial sovereignty, while focusing in this relatively peaceful era on modernizing in step with national economic development.

Author : Charles D. Lovejoy,Bruce W. Watson
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4967293

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China's Military Reforms by Charles D. Lovejoy,Bruce W. Watson Pdf

Author : Amy Chang,John Dotson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : 1475292120

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Indigenous Weapons Development in China's Military Modernization by Amy Chang,John Dotson Pdf

"China's process of modernizing its armed forces has involved the development of indigenously designed weapons systems, some of which appeared to undergo a process of development, procurement, and/or deployment that outpaced the estimates of U.S. and other foreign observers. This paper specifically focuses on four key weapons platforms that have been discussed as 'surprise' developments to U.S. analysts. ... Based on the four case studies covered in this report, there are no universal trends in publicly reported U.S. government analysis on the development of indigenous Chinese weapon systems. ... The trends of past decades are no longer a reliable guide to the performance of China's defense industries. Furthermore, U.S. observers should not take at face value statements from the Chinese government on military policy, as they could either be deceptive, or simply issued by agencies (e.g., the PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs) that have no real say over military matters. Based on the trends identified in this paper, U.S. analysts and policymakers should expect to see continued advancements in the ability of the PRC to produce modern weapons platforms, and an attendant increase in the operational capabilities of the People's Liberation Army."--Exec. sum.

Author : Harold Brown,Joseph W. Prueher,Adam Segal
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822033246828

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Chinese Military Power by Harold Brown,Joseph W. Prueher,Adam Segal Pdf

Features a directory of Web sites about Chinese military policy and capabilities, compiled by the U.S. Commonwealth Institute. Links to commentary, military analyses, and information on political and economic conditions in China.