PLA: Future Technological Juggernaut
Mary C. FitzGerald, a research fellow at the Hudson Institute, has written a very good paper on the technological future of the Peoples Liberation Army. In it she has stated how the new generation of Chinese generals now understands and promotes the importance of technology to military superiority.
She gives us a figure of 500 billion Yuan ($61.9 billion) annual spending by the Chinese to acquire the technology necessary to conquer Taiwan in seven days. Obviously the 62 billion is a number from Chinese sources that are notorious for understating military spending, and it is usually safe to double the given numbers in order to come close to true spending values.
In addition, she points out how outside observers like the Russians, have seen the way that the PLA has been modernizing as an attempt to push US military presence away from Asia’s shores. As one Russian analyst says about the new Chinese Monroe doctrine, "All of Asia belongs to the Chinese — and not only Asia.”
She gives us a figure of 500 billion Yuan ($61.9 billion) annual spending by the Chinese to acquire the technology necessary to conquer Taiwan in seven days. Obviously the 62 billion is a number from Chinese sources that are notorious for understating military spending, and it is usually safe to double the given numbers in order to come close to true spending values.
In addition, she points out how outside observers like the Russians, have seen the way that the PLA has been modernizing as an attempt to push US military presence away from Asia’s shores. As one Russian analyst says about the new Chinese Monroe doctrine, "All of Asia belongs to the Chinese — and not only Asia.”
posted by Aleksandr at 9:56 PM
1 Comments:
just doing my part here, but with your interest in China, you may want to go to my site and click on the link immediately up on the top left (one that says "American Professor in China...) right underneath it.
Just a thought. Either way, good post, and nice job.
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