TY  - BOOK
AU  - CHOUDHURY Diptendu
TI  - Expanding role of PLAAF in China's national security strategy
PY  - 2020///
KW  - CHINA
KW  -  SECURITY
KW  -  AIR FORCE
KW  - SECURITY STRATEGY
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2020.1841100
ER  -