China's Pursuit for World Power Status: Is the Transformation of the People's Liberation Army a Threat to the United States Global Interest and Security?

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the increasing capabilities and goals of the PLA, and show that the focus of the CCP national strategy is to obtain a near mirror image military capability to the United States within the next decade. This desire from a Chinese perspective is not to modernize and transform the PLA in order to provoke military conflict with the US, but to have a deterrence capability to maintain its economic and diplomatic progress in the areas in which both nations have national interest.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA491571

Entities

People

  • Gregory L. Grunwald

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Defense
  • Aircrafts
  • Continents
  • Geography
  • Military Forces (Foreign)
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Natural Resources
  • Navies (Foreign)
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Shipbuilding
  • South America
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies