TY  - BOOK
AU  - MEDEIROS Evan S
TI  - A new direction for China's defense industry
SN  - 0833037943 (pbk):
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Santa Monica, Calif.
PB  - RAND
KW  - CHINA
KW  - DEFENCE INDUSTRY
KW  - DEFENCE CAPABILITY
N2  - 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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