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1 online resource (12 pages). |
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U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission staff research backgrounder |
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U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission staff research backgrounder.
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"August 26, 2013." |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 9-12). |
Summary |
In the late 1980s, China began a modernization program to transform the People's Liberation Army Navy from a coastal force into a technologically-advanced regional navy. China's acquisition of platforms, weapons, and systems has emphasized qualitative improvements, not quantitative growth, and centered on improving its ability to strike opposing ships at sea and operate at greater distances from the Chinese mainland. The PLA Navy has made significant progress, particularly since the late 1990s. Today, it is able to conduct high intensity operations in China's immediate periphery and carry out low intensity operations around the world. Trends in China's defense spending, research and development, and shipbuilding suggest the PLA Navy will continue to modernize through at least 2020. China's increasingly advanced and adaptive naval capabilities, many of which appear to be designed to restrict U.S. freedom of action throughout the Western Pacific, could undermine U.S. interests and security in the region. |
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Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from cover (USSC, viewed Nov. 4, 2021). |
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China. Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun. Hai jun.
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Sea-power -- China.
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China -- Military policy.
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China. Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun. Hai jun. (OCoLC)fst00592570
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Military policy. (OCoLC)fst01021386
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Sea-power. (OCoLC)fst01110196
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China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
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Added Author |
Berglund, Andrew, author.
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Hsu, Kimberly, author.
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U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, issuing body.
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Gpo Item No. |
1089-A-11 (online) |
Sudoc No. |
Y 3.2:C 44/N 22 |
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