China's naval modernization and implications for the United States / by Craig Murray, Andrew Berglund, and Kimberly Hsu.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Murray, Craig (Policy analyst), author.

Berglund, Andrew, author.

Hsu, Kimberly, author.

Contributor:

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, issuing body.

Series:

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission staff research backgrounder

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China. Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun. Hai jun.

China.

Sea-power--China.

Sea-power.

China--Military policy.

Military policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (12 pages).

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, 2013.

System Details:

text file PDF

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.

Notes:

"August 26, 2013."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 9-12).

Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from cover (USSC, viewed Nov. 4, 2021).

OCLC:

857775803