The Chinese military is growing and modernizing rapidly.
Three reports from the Pentagon very accurately describe the rapid growth and modernization of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
U.S. Department of Defense

Everything You Need To Know About the Chinese Military If You Don't Read Chinese

The Pentagon has released three very detailed reports this year on the Chinese People's Liberation Army. They are exceptional sources at a critical time in the modernization of China's military.
By David M. Finkelstein
June 2019
Proceedings

Last month, the Department of Defense (DoD) released its annual report Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2019. Also known as the China Military Power Report (CMPR), it joins two other major DoD publications produced this year that focus on People’s Republic of China (PRC) military affairs: the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA’s) China Military Power: Modernizing a Force to Fight and Win (January 2019) and Chairman Xi Remakes the PLA: Assessing Chinese Military Reforms (National Defense University Press, February 2019). With these three publications, DoD has placed into the public domain an impressive amount of information and analysis about the Chinese military. 

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David M. Finkelstein

David M. Finkelstein is a vice president at CNA, an independent research and analysis institution in Arlington, Virginia, where he directs CNA's China & Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Division. The views expressed here are strictly his own.

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