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PDF: China's Military Strategy Toward the U.S.

Download 74 times Source: www.au.af.mil // Topic: Military Strategy File Size: 332.97 kb // Total of Page: 27 Page(s) Last download by dlafuera Last download on: 1 day ago Share this info: Sample of page (click to enlarge) Short Desciption: a political-military premise behind this strategy. Its success depends on correct and detailed. assessments of the opponent's weakest points and the best ... Content Inside: CHINAS MILITARY STRATEGY TOWARD THE U.S. A View from Open Sources Michael Pillsbury November 2, 2001 PAGE 1 Introduction: Choosing the Framework is Everything One key issue in understanding the Chinese military is what framework to use. The most common is to compare the PLA to the current US armed forces, and then to find the PLA to be pathetic. This framework leads many China specialists to be deeply upset at anyone who sees a threat from China now or in the future. Chinese authors also condemn the "China Threat Theory" as an elaborate and sinister deception. One Chinese author in a Beijing Review article even claims the theory was invented in Japan. There are many other frameworks, however, besides using current US armed forces as the standard to "prove" that the PLA is backward. Among them, one possible framework is the "transformation" framework. Inside the Pentagon, the press has reported for many years