The Real Reason for China’s Rising Military Threat
Serious PLA modernization efforts began in 1991 when the trouncing of Iraq’s huge mechanized army in the Gulf War caused Beijing to realize its dated, World War II-style military was similarly vulnerable.
Here’s What You Need to Remember: On January 12, 2019, the Defense Intelligence Agency released an annual report highlighting the radical reorganization of China’s People’s Liberation Army to become faster-responding, more flexible and more lethal than ever before.
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China’s Updated National Defense Law: Going for Broke
Publication: China Brief Volume: 21 Issue: 4
February 26, 2021 02:53 PM
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Image: Chinese President, CMC Chairman and CCP Secretary General Xi Jinping greets members of the People’s Liberation Army. (Image source: Xinhua)
Introduction
On January 1, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) put into effect new revisions to its National Defense Law (henceforth, “Law”) (中华人民共和国国防法 zhonghua renmin gonghe guo guofang fa) (Xinhua, December 26, 2020; South China Morning Post, January 3).
[1] This is the first update since 2009. Although the revisions might seem ordinary at first glance, they have important implications for the future of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which it is worth noting answers to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), not the state. There has been tension throughout the PRC’s history surrounding the subordination of the armed forces relative to the Party, the state a