China's Modernizing Military

China's Modernizing Military | Council on Foreign Relations

Reforms have focused on streamlining its top-heavy command structure; creating smaller, more agile units; and empowering lower-level commanders.

DOD Report Details Chinese Efforts to Build Military Power

At sea, China has the world's largest navy with a battle force of more than 370 ships and submarines. The Chinese launched their third aircraft ...

Modernization of the People's Liberation Army - Wikipedia

Deng reestablished civilian control over the military by appointing his supporters to key military leadership positions, by reducing the scope of the PLA's ...

Why Is China Strengthening Its Military? It's Not All About War | RAND

Like autocrats elsewhere, Chinese leaders regard a powerful military as a sign of national status and as a way of whipping up patriotic ...

Five Things to Know About China's Armed Forces

Scobell: The PLA is the regular active-duty military component of the armed forces of the People's Republic of China (or PRC, founded in 1949).

Xi shakes up China's military in rethink of how to 'fight and win' future ...

China has rolled out the largest restructuring of its military in almost a decade, focusing on technology-driven strategic forces equipped for modern warfare.

Xi Jinping's PLA Reforms and Redefining “Active Defense”

The PLA reforms under Xi mark an attempt to achieve military parity with strategic competitors and secure China's standing as a military power on the global ...

China Military Power Report Examines Changes in Beijing's Strategy

Specifically, this addresses China's military-civil fusion development strategy. The report says Beijing seeks to develop and acquire advanced ...

China's Military Modernisation | IISS Strategic Survey 2022

Chinese President Xi Jinping has set three goals for the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) modernisation by mid-century (2049 or 2050) as part of ...

China's Military Modernisation: Recent Trends - 2024

This report analyses recent improvements in the structure, including the creation of the Information Support Force, the development of new weapons and ...

The Defense Department's China Military Power Report: The Threat ...

The Chinese air force continues to modernize and produce increasingly advanced, domestically built manned and unmanned aircraft. Together with ...

China's Military Modernization: Implications for Regional Security ...

Secretary Blinken met with senior PRC officials where he discussed the importance of maintaining open lines of communication to responsibly manage the US-PRC ...

What are the latest upgrades in China's military? | Reuters

China's long-term military modernisation efforts are bearing fruit, with a string of upgrades for its warships and warplanes under way amid ...

China's Military Modernization | Stanford University Press

Until now, no single volume has provided an authoritative, comprehensive, and concise description of China's evolving geo-strategy, or detailed how China is ...

Getting to World Class: Can China's Military Persevere?

China's leaders have promoted an ambitious vision of military modernization through midcentury, but success will depend on whether the party ...

China's military ambitions are mostly regional, not global — for now

The goal of China's military modernization plan is to ensure China has the ability to win a war against the US in the Indo-Pacific.

Will Xi's Military Modernization Pay Off? - Foreign Affairs

Li Yuchao, the commander of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force, which oversees China's arsenal of conventional and nuclear missiles ...

China's Military Reforms and Modernization: Implications for the ...

The Commission's February hearing on “China's Military Reforms and Modernization: Implications for the United States” will provide insight into how China's ...

Modernization and the Military-Civil Fusion Strategy - Air University

This article employs economic and political theory to elucidate a novel approach by which China seeks to gain military advantages through a technological surge.

Modernising China's Military, 1997-2012 - OpenEdition Journals

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has since the late 1990s been engaged in an ambitious, concerted, and methodical transformation.