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How will China use its increasing military capabilities in the future? China faces a complicated security environment with a wide range of internal and external threats. Rapidly expanding international interests are creating demands for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to conduct new missions ranging from protecting Chinese shipping from Somali pirates to evacuating citizens from Libya. The most recent Chinese defense white paper states that the armed forces must “make serious preparations to cope with the most complex and difficult scenarios . . . so as to ensure proper responses . . . at any time and under any circumstances.”
ISBN
9780996824903
Publication Date
2015
Publisher
National Defense University Press
City
Washington, DC
Recommended Citation
Scobell, Andrew; Ding, Arthur S.; Saunders, Phillip C.; Harold, Scott W.; Chase, Michael S.; Cheng, Dean; Cozad, Mark; Engstrom, Jeffrey; Gunness, Kristen; Huang, Alexander Chieh-cheng; Lowsen, Ben; Chengkun, Ma; Morris, Lyle; Stokes, Mark A.; Thompson, Marcelyn L.; Walton, Jonathan; Welch, Catherine; Woodrow, Thomas; and Wortzel, Larry M., "The People’s Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China" (2015). Books and Book Chapters. 9.
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