Expanding role of PLAAF in China's national security strategy/ Diptendu Choudhury
Material type: TextPublication details: 2020Subject(s): Online resources: In: Strategic Analysis: Vol 44, No. 6, 2020, pp. 521-541 (26A)Summary: The need to sustain the economy and energy flow makes the East and South China seas vital to it. Its vulnerabilities also lie on its seaboard. To dominate the maritime spaces, it needs to own the contiguous airspace as well. The prescient Chinese leadership has transformed its Air Force into a strategic instrument of power, to protect its economic lifelines, geo-political interests and regional dominance.Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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The need to sustain the economy and energy flow makes the East and South China seas vital to it. Its vulnerabilities also lie on its seaboard. To dominate the maritime spaces, it needs to own the contiguous airspace as well. The prescient Chinese leadership has transformed its Air Force into a strategic instrument of power, to protect its economic lifelines, geo-political interests and regional dominance.
ENERGY, CHINA, SECURITY, STRATEGY, NATSEC
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