China's Military Power

Abstract

Once termed the 'world's largest military museum', the Chinese military has made enormous progress over the past twenty years. With skyrocketing military budgets and new technology, China's tanks, aircraft, destroyers, and missile capabilities are becoming comparable to those of the United States. If these trends continue, how powerful will the Chinese military be in the future? Will its capabilities soon rival or surpass those of the United States? The most comprehensive study of its kind, this book provides a detailed assessment of China's military capabilities in 2000 and 2010 with projections for 2020. It is the first of its kind in outlining a rigorous, theoretically and empirically grounded framework for assessing military capability based on not just weaponry but also doctrine, training, equipment, and organizational structure. This framework provides not only the most accurate assessment of China's military to date but an important new tool in the study of military history.

Maintaining the Edge? The People's Liberation Army's Logistics and Maintenance Lessons Learned and Approaches Relevant for Counterintervention

“…The reforms from 1998 to 2008 therefore sought to implement two major initiatives that would modernize logistics capabilities: (1) merging redundant but common support activities conducted by each service into a logistics department for each military region and (2) socialization, or moving non-military activities of the PLA to be performed by civilian organizations. 16 However, since 2008, three dynamics have continued to challenge the PLA's progress in improving its logistics capability. First, China's military services continued to lack a robust capability to quickly respond and flow necessary supplies throughout the country, let alone outside China's borders.…”

Indonesia and Regionalism in Southeast Asia, Asean and Indonesian Foreign Policy

“…United States was deemed to be the sole power in across East Asia until China keeps up with its effort to narrow the gap when it comes to military power in the region (Layne, 2018, 95). Cliff in his work has even predicted that China's overtake of US military hegemony across East Asia by the year 2020 (Cliff, 2015,244-246, Layne, 2018. Moreover, some scholarly works have assessed the power balance of effort of ASEAN towards some other powers.…”