MEDEIROS Evan S <br/><br/>
A new direction for China's defense industry / 
Evan S Medeiros, Roger Cliff, Keith Crane, James C Mulvenon 
 - Santa Monica, Calif. :  RAND,  2005 
 - xxv, 304 p. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0833037943 (pbk): 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>CHINA--DEFENCE INDUSTRY<br/>CHINA--DEFENCE CAPABILITY