A new direction for China's defense industry / Evan S Medeiros, Roger Cliff, Keith Crane, James C Mulvenon

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 2005Description: xxv, 304 pISBN:
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Subject(s): Summary: Argues the China's defence industries are benefitting from a process of gradual but persistent improvements. Consequently previous Western assumptions about weaknesses and limitations are questioned; instead it is now thought that some sectors are producing a wide range of increasingly advanced weapons that in the short term have direct relevance to possible conflict over Taiwan, and in the longer term for China's position in Asia.
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Argues the China's defence industries are benefitting from a process of gradual but persistent improvements. Consequently previous Western assumptions about weaknesses and limitations are questioned; instead it is now thought that some sectors are producing a wide range of increasingly advanced weapons that in the short term have direct relevance to possible conflict over Taiwan, and in the longer term for China's position in Asia.

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